Does native state topology determine the RNA folding mechanism?

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 337, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 789-797

  Sorin, Eric J ^a   Nakatani, Bradley J ^a   Rhee, Young Min ^a   Jayachandran, Guha ^b   Vishal, V ^a   Pande, Vijay S ^a,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biasing potential; Bulk kinetics; Distributed computing; LJ, Lennard Jones; Mechanism; RMSD, root mean squared deviations; RNA folding

Indexed keywords

RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA FOLDING; RNA STRUCTURE;

JONES;

EID: 1642265837     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.02.024     Document Type: Article

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