RNA structure

Curr Opin Struct Biol. 1998 Jun;8(3):278-85. doi: 10.1016/s0959-440x(98)80059-6.

Abstract

New information concerning RNA structure is accumulating at an ever increasing rate-from short helices with mismatched bases of 5S rRNA and complex RNA aptamers. The importance of recurring structural motifs, ion binding, and the kinetics and energetics of folding in RNA structure and function is now being recognized and addressed.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Base Composition
  • Base Sequence
  • Introns
  • Models, Molecular
  • Nucleic Acid Conformation*
  • RNA / chemistry*
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 5S / chemistry

Substances

  • RNA, Ribosomal, 5S
  • RNA