Site-specific variations in RNA folding thermodynamics visualized by 2-aminopurine fluorescence

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 49, 2007, Pages 13948-13960

  Ballin, Jeff D ^a   Bharill, Shashank ^b   Fialcowitz White, Elizabeth J ^a   Gryczynski, Ignacy ^b   Gryczynski, Zygmunt ^b   Wilson, Gerald M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; PROTEINS; RNA; THERMODYNAMICS;

GLOBAL STRUCTURAL TRANSITIONS; RNA FOLDING; STEADY-STATE FLUORESCENCE; THERMAL DENATURATION;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

2 AMINOPURINE; RNA;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENERGY; FLUORESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; STEADY STATE; THERMODYNAMICS; TIME;

2-AMINOPURINE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES; RNA; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 37149043845     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi7011977     Document Type: Article

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