Metastable structures and refolding kinetics in hok mRNA of plasmid R1

RNA

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1408-1418

  Nagel, J H A ^a   Gultyaev, A P ^a,b   Gerdes, K ^c   Pleij, C W A ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Branch migration; Kinetic traps; RNA rearrangements; RNA refolding; Strand displacement; Structure probing

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL KILLING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA BINDING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION;

EID: 0032709143     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838299990805     Document Type: Article

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