Geometrical factor and physical reasons for its influence on the kinetic and thermodynamic properties of RNA-like heteropolymers

Folding and Design

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 193-201

  Galzitskaya, Oxana V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Energy minima; Optimal temperature and solvent conditions; Random and 'geometrical' edited sequences; RNA folding

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMER; RIBOZYME; RNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; KINETICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BIOPOLYMERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0030631628     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(97)00026-6     Document Type: Article

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