Exploration of the transition state for tertiary structure formation between an RNA helix and a large structured RNA

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 328, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1011-1026

  Bartley, Laura E ^a   Zhuang, Xiaowei ^b,c   Das, Rhiju ^a,b   Chu, Steven ^b   Herschlag, Daniel ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Kinetic trap; Phi analysis; RNA folding; Single molecule assay; Tetrahymena ribozyme

Indexed keywords

RIBOZYME; RNA;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 0242500997     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(03)00272-9     Document Type: Article

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