Do conformational biases of simple helical junctions influence RNA folding stability and specificity?

RNA

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2195-2205

  Chu, Vincent B ^a   Lipfert, Jan ^b   Bai, Yu ^c   Pande, Vijay S ^a   Doniach, Sebastian ^a   Herschlag, Daniel ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c University of Houston   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrostatics; Folding; Junctions; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MACROGOL; SINGLE STRANDED RNA;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ELECTRICITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA STABILITY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 73249135897     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.1747509     Document Type: Article

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