Enthalpy-driven RNA folding: Single-molecule thermodynamics of tetraloop-receptor tertiary interaction

Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2550-2558

  Fiore, Julie L ^a,b   Kraemer, Benedikt ^a,b   Koberling, Felix ^a,b   Edmann, Rainer ^a,b   Nesbitt, David J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b PICOQUANT GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE STACKING; CONFORMATIONAL STABILITIES; ENTROPIC CONTRIBUTIONS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFERS; FOLDING THERMODYNAMICS; HYDROGEN BONDINGS; INTERCONVERSION; RECEPTOR INTERACTIONS; RIBOZYME; RNA FOLDING; SINGLE MOLECULES; STRUCTURE PREDICTIONS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCES; TEMPERATURE RANGES; TERTIARY INTERACTIONS; TETRAHYMENA; VAN'T HOFF ANALYSIS;

ENERGY TRANSFER; ENTHALPY; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANTS; FLUORESCENCE; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN BONDS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THERMODYNAMICS;

DOCKING;

DOCKING PROTEIN; RIBOZYME; RNA;

ARTICLE; ENTHALPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TETRAHYMENA; THERMODYNAMICS;

KINETICS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEINS; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC; TEMPERATURE; TETRAHYMENA; THERMODYNAMICS;

TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 64849085465     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi8019788     Document Type: Article

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