Evidence for global mobility in the premelting of a polynucleotide from temperature-dependent Raman optical activity

Biospectroscopy

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 107-111

  Bell, Alasdair F ^a   Hecht, Lutz ^a   Barron, Laurence D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conformational mobility; Nucleic acid dynamics; Raman optical activity; RNA; Temperature dependence

Indexed keywords

POLYADENYLIC POLYURIDYLIC ACID; POLYNUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

POLY A-U; POLYNUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0031616721     PISSN: 10754261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6343(1998)4:2<107::AID-BSPY3>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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