Back to the future of RNA structure
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, USA
- Corresponding author: feigon{at}mbi.ucla.edu
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The first issue of RNA appeared 20 years ago in March, 1995 with Tim Nilsen as Editor, with a cover that featured a ribbon diagram of a model of the self-splicing Group I intron based on phylogenetic analysis by Francois Michel and Eric Westhof. At that time, there were fewer than 15 RNA structures, including RNA-DNA and RNA-protein complexes, in the Brookhaven Data Base (now known as the Protein Data Base). By the end of 1996, there were over 40; this “explosive” growth in RNA structural studies led to the first ever meeting on RNA Structure, organized by Harry Noller and others and held at UC Santa Cruz in June, 1997. Olke Uhlenbeck was recruited to write a review of that meeting, and he in turn recruited Art Pardi and myself to help him (Uhlenbeck, Pardi, and Feigon, Cell, 1997). Looking back, it was an exciting time! The review …
