A simple molecular model for thermophilic adaptation of functional nucleic acids

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 4232-4240

  Blose, Joshua M ^a   Silverman, Scott K ^b   Bevilacqua, Philip C ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; FREE ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PH EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

MOLECULE RECOGNITION; RNA MOLECULES; TERTIARY STRUCTURES; THERMOPHILIC ADAPTATION;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

CYTOSINE; DNA; GUANINE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TERTIARY (PERIOD); THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTABILITY;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; HEAT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RNA; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 34147138346     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi0620003     Document Type: Article

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