Fitting peptides into the RNA world.
The structures of several peptide-RNA complexes have been reported in the past year, underscoring the diverse nature of RNA structure and protein interactions. In general, specific peptide conformations are stabilized by the surrounding RNA framework; this is strikingly similar to how peptides are stabilized upon interaction with proteins.
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Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0448, USA. frankel@cgl.ucsf. edu.
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