Folding of RNA involves parallel pathways

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 273, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 7-13

  Pan, Jie ^a   Thirumalai, D ^b   Woodson, Sarah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Group I intron; Iterative annealing; Kinetic partitioning mechanism; Tetrahymena ribozyme

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 0031576334     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1311     Document Type: Article

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