Measuring the folding transition time of single RNA molecules

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3275-3283

  Lee, Tae Hee ^a   Lapidus, Lisa J ^a   Zhao, Wei ^a   Travers, Kevin J ^b   Herschlag, Daniel ^b   Chu, Steven ^a,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; PHOTON CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN FOLDING; TETRAHYMENA;

TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 34247589224     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.094623     Document Type: Article

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