Structural Dynamics and Processing of Nucleic Acids Revealed by Single-Molecule Spectroscopy

Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 4055-4063

  Ha, Taekjip ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYMES; FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

SINGLE-MOLECULE FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

ENZYME; HELICASE; NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN; RIBOZYME; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

DNA; RNA; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 1842583976     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi049973s     Document Type: Review

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