Single-Molecule Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Assays Reveal Heterogeneous Folding Ensembles in a Simple RNA Stem-Loop

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 384, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 264-278

  Gell, Christopher ^a   Sabir, Tara ^a   Westwood, Jonathan ^a   Rashid, Abdul ^a   Smith, D Alastair M ^a   Harris, Sarah Anne ^a   Stockley, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

assembly initiation; fluorescence spectroscopy; MS2 bacteriophage; single molecule folding; translational operator

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MS2 VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 54249159094     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.08.088     Document Type: Article

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