Rearrangement of partially ordered stacked conformations contributes to the rugged energy landscape of a small RNA hairpin

Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 41, 2008, Pages 10834-10840

  Stancik, Aaron L ^a   Brauns, Eric B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACIDS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; RNA; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

ENERGY LANDSCAPES; FAST RELAXATION; LASER-INDUCED; RELAXATION KINETICS; TIME-RESOLVED INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; WAVE-NUMBERS;

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

SHORT HAIRPIN RNA;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENERGY TRANSFER; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA DEGRADATION; THERMOSTABILITY;

KINETICS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 53749104471     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi801170c     Document Type: Article

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