Isolation of a local tertiary folding transition in the context of a globally folded RNA

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 701-710

  Narlikar, Geeta J ^a   Herschlag, Daniel ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RIBOZYME; RNA; SODIUM ION;

ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; ENTROPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; TETRAHYMENA; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTABILITY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COLD; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; RNA, CATALYTIC; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TETRAHYMENA; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0029746472     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb0896-701     Document Type: Article

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