Salt-dependent folding energy landscape of RNA three-way junction

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 111-120

  Chen, Gengsheng ^a   Tan, Zhi Jie ^a,b   Chen, Shi Jie ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM; RIBOSOME RNA; SODIUM;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATION; ENERGY YIELD; LANDSCAPE; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STABILITY; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 74049124353     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.09.057     Document Type: Article

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