Nanometer distance measurements in RNA using site-directed spin labeling

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2110-2117

  Cai, Qi ^a   Kusnetzow, Ana Karin ^b   Hideg, Kálmán ^c   Price, Eric A ^a   Haworth, Ian S ^a   Qin, Peter Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROXIDE; PHOSPHOROTHIOIC ACID; RNA;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PREDICTION; QUANTUM YIELD; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED SPIN LABELING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 34548729760     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.109439     Document Type: Article

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