Measuring the dynamic surface accessibility of RNA with the small paramagnetic molecule TEMPOL

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Venditti, Vincenzo ^a   Niccolai, Neri ^a   Butcher, Samuel E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PYRIMIDINE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE; TEMPOL; VIRUS RNA; AMINE OXIDE; RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; U6 SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; RNA PROBE; RNA STRUCTURE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; SPIN LABELING;

CYCLIC N-OXIDES; HIV-1; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA, VIRAL; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 40249088362     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm1062     Document Type: Article

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