C2′-endo nucleotides as molecular timers suggested by the folding of an RNA domain

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 37, 2009, Pages 15622-15627

  Mortimer, Stefanie A ^a   Weeks, Kevin M ^a  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

RNA folding; RNA SHAPE chemistry

Indexed keywords

LIGAND; NUCLEOTIDE DERIVATIVE; RNA; BACTERIAL RNA; DYES, REAGENTS, INDICATORS, MARKERS AND BUFFERS; RIBONUCLEASE P; RIBOZYME;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; ACYLATION; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

ACYLATION; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE SEQUENCE; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBONUCLEASE P; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, CATALYTIC; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 70349459246     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901319106     Document Type: Article

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