Fast folding of an RNA tetraloop on a rugged energy landscape detected by a stacking-sensitive probe

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1418-1427

  Sarkar, Krishnarjun ^a   Meister, Konrad ^a,c   Sethi, Anurag ^a   Gruebele, Martin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOPURINE; HYDROGEN; RNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; ENERGY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROGEN BOND; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SIMULATION;

2-AMINOPURINE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE; HYDROGEN BONDING; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; KINETICS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; RNA; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 70349594633     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.06.035     Document Type: Article

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