Formation of metastable RNA structures by sequential folding during transcription: Time-resolved structural analysis of potato spindle tuber viroid (-)-stranded RNA by temperature-gradient gel electrophoresis

RNA

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 574-584

  Repsilber, Dirk ^b   Wiese, Sabine ^b   Rachen, Marc ^b   Schröder, Astrid W ^b   Riesner, Detlev ^b   Steger, Gerhard ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Kinetics; Rate of transcription; RNA secondary structure; Structure formation

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; VIROID; VIRUS REPLICATION;

DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; KINETICS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; RNA, VIRAL; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIROIDS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALIA; POTATO SPINDLE TUBER VIROID; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; VIROIDS;

EID: 0032900052     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838299982018     Document Type: Article

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