Apart from carrying the information to encode proteins in, RNA molecules can adopt intricate 2D and 3D structures. Specifically, the same RNA molecule can switch between ON and OFF structures, ...

Figure 1: a, Secondary structure of E. coli 4.5S RNA and its interaction site with Ffh (shown in gray as two-domain model). Figure 2: NMR spectra of exchangeable protons of the SRP 28-mer. Some ...

Although answers to these profound questions are not yet completely known, it seems very probable that both DNA and RNA viruses target the same cellular structure, which might reflect a mechanism ...