Altered structural fluctuations in duplex RNA versus DNA: A conformational switch involving base pair opening

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 7131-7140

  Pan, Yongping ^a   MacKerell Jr , Alexander D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF PHARMACY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; DNA; GUANINE; NUCLEOSIDE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RNA; SOLVENT; URACIL;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA STRUCTURE; HYDROGEN BOND; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STRUCTURE;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PLIABILITY; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; SOLVENTS;

EID: 0346882954     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg941     Document Type: Article

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