Unusual mechanical stability of a minimal RNA kissing complex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 103, Issue 43, 2006, Pages 15847-15852

  Li, Pan T X ^a   Bustamante, Carlos ^a   Tinoco Jr , Ignacio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mechanical unfolding; Optical tweezers; RNA dimerization; RNA folding; Single molecule

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; COMPLEX FORMATION; DIMERIZATION; FORCE; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RETROVIRUS; RNA STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE;

BASE SEQUENCE; KINETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA;

EID: 33750447980     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0607202103     Document Type: Article

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