Monovalent and divalent promoted GAAA tetraloop-receptor tertiary interactions from freely diffusing single-molecule studies

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 3892-3905

  Fiore, Julie L ^a   Hodak, Jose H ^a   Piestert, Oliver ^a   Downey, Christopher D ^a   Nesbitt, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM; RNA; SODIUM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DIFFUSION; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRICITY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENETICS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TETRAHYMENA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DIFFUSION; ELECTROSTATICS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETICS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MAGNESIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; SODIUM; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 56049095755     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.108.134346     Document Type: Article

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