RNA folding at low temperatures sheds light on primordial biochemistry
Without structure there is no function, and without function there is no life." The study reveals that RNA sequences that ...
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transfer RNA / tRNA
Transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) is a type of RNA molecule that helps decode ... The tRNA molecule has a distinctive folded structure with three hairpin loops that form the shape of a three ...
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Small RNAs Save Plant Centromeres
In the absence of DDM1 and RNAi, this TE doesn’t produce small RNAs, so the centromere is not methylated. These mutants also had few epigenetic tags on their histones, which contribute to the ...
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Another handle for RNA
The structure of the PP7 bacteriophage coat protein ... also regulate expression of another viral protein by binding an RNA hairpin that contains the translation initiation site.