Monitoring structural changes in nucleic acids with single residue spatial and millisecond time resolution by quantitative hydroxyl radical footprinting

Nature Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 288-302

  Shcherbakova, Inna ^a   Brenowitz, Michael ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; PHOSPHORUS 32; RIBOZYME;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA FOOTPRINTING; FENTON REACTION; ISOTOPE LABELING; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

ANIMALS; DNA FOOTPRINTING; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; IRON; KINETICS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHOSPHORUS ISOTOPES; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 39449112406     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.533     Document Type: Article

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