Variable helix elongation as a tool to modulate RNA alignment and motional couplings

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 117-121

  Dethoff, Elizabeth A ^a   Hansen, Alexandar L ^a,b   Zhang, Qi ^a,c   Al Hashimi, Hashim M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective helix motions; HIV; Residual dipolar couplings; Transactivation response element

Indexed keywords

COUPLING LIMITS; HELIX AXIS; HIGHER-DEGREE; INDEPENDENT SET; RESIDUAL DIPOLAR COUPLINGS; RNA STRUCTURES; STATE DYNAMICS; TRANS-ACTIVATION RESPONSE;

ALIGNMENT; ELONGATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RNA; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; TAR; VIRUSES;

COUPLINGS;

RNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BASE SEQUENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 72149096007     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2009.09.022     Document Type: Article

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