Does water play a structural role in the folding of small nucleic acids?

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2516-2524

  Sorin, Eric J ^a   Rhee, Young Min ^a   Pande, Vijay S ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; RNA; SOLVENT; WATER;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

EID: 22144496413     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.055087     Document Type: Article

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