Conformational Flexibility of Four-way Junctions in RNA

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 336, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 69-79

  Hohng, Sungchul ^a   Wilson, Timothy J ^b   Tan, Elliot ^a   Clegg, Robert M ^a   Lilley, David M J ^b   Ha, Taekjip ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fluorescence resonance energy transfer; Hairpin ribozyme; RNA structures; Single molecule spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM ION; RIBOZYME; RNA; SODIUM ION;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENTROPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 0346500500     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2003.12.014     Document Type: Article

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