RNA folding and unfolding

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 374-379

  Onoa, Bibiana ^a   Tinoco Jr , Ignacio ^b  

^a DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

FCS; Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy; Fluorescence resonance energy transfer; FRET

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HISTOGRAM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; RNA STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

BASE SEQUENCE; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 2942550783     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2004.04.001     Document Type: Review

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