Global structure of four-way RNA junctions studied using fluorescence resonance energy transfer

RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 719-728

  Walter, Frank ^a   Murchie, Alastair I H ^a   Duckett, Derek R ^a   Lilley, David M J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Branched RNA; FRET; Metal ions; RNA structure; U1 snRNA

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMANS; MAGNESIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; RNA; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0031800080     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S135583829898030X     Document Type: Article

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