Mechanically probing the folding pathway of single RNA molecules

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2831-2840

  Gerland, Ulrich ^a,c   Bundschuh, Ralf ^b   Hwa, Terence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; DENATURATION; ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; RNA PROBE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE;

TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 0037623306     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)70012-5     Document Type: Article

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