Single VS Ribozyme Molecules Reveal Dynamic and Hierarchical Folding Toward Catalysis

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 382, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 496-509

  Pereira, Miguel J B ^a   Nikolova, Evgenia N ^a   Hiley, Shawna L ^b   Jaikaran, Dominic ^b   Collins, Richard A ^b   Walter, Nils G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

catalytic RNA; Neurospora; non coding RNA folding; RNA dynamics; single molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL RNA; RIBOZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VARKUD SATELLITE RIBOZYME;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUROSPORA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA REPLICATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

NEUROSPORA;

EID: 50049086369     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.07.020     Document Type: Article

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