Local Kinetic Measures of Macromolecular Structure Reveal Partitioning among Multiple Parallel Pathways from the Earliest Steps in the Folding of a Large RNA Molecule

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 358, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1179-1190

  Laederach, Alain ^a   Shcherbakova, Inna ^b   Liang, Mike P ^a   Brenowitz, Michael ^b   Altman, Russ B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

folding; pathway; ribozyme; RNA; salt

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYL RADICAL; RIBOZYME; RNA; SODIUM ION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; INTRON; ION TRANSPORT; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 33646089899     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.02.075     Document Type: Article

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