Thermodynamics of unpaired terminal nucleotides on short RNA helixes correlates with stacking at helix termini in larger RNAs

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 290, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 967-982

  Burkard, Mark E ^a   Kierzek, Ryszard ^b   Turner, Douglas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

2 Pyrimidinone; Dangling end; Electrostatics; Inosine; RNA folding

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; NUCLEOTIDE; URACIL;

ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; BASE PAIRING; DATA BASE; HYDROGEN BOND; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033618268     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2906     Document Type: Article

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