Loop dependence of the stability and dynamics of nucleic acid hairpins

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1098-1112

  Kuznetsov, Serguei V ^a   Ren, Cha Chi ^b,d   Woodson, Sarah A ^b   Ansari, Anjum ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^d DC Public Schools   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; KINETICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE, METABOLISM AND FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; KINETICS; MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; RNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 40249094662     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm1083     Document Type: Article

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