Global structure and flexibility of hairpin ribozymes with extended terminal helices

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 289, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 799-813

  Porschke, Dietmar ^a   Burke, John M ^b   Walter, Nils G ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bead model simulation; RNA dynamics; RNA folding; Rotational diffusion; Transient electric dichroism

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; RIBOZYME;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC FIELD; GENE CONSTRUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REFERENCE VALUE; RNA STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0033013494     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2777     Document Type: Article

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