Single-molecule RNA science

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 34, Issue , 2005, Pages 399-414

  Zhuang, Xiaowei ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence resonance energy transfer; Optical tweezers; RNA catalysis; RNA folding; Single molecule experiments

Indexed keywords

RNA;

CATALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA TRANSLATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBOSOMES; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC; TETRAHYMENA; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 20544455895     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.34.040204.144641     Document Type: Review

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