Multiple native states reveal persistent ruggedness of an RNA folding landscape

Nature

Volumn 463, Issue 7281, 2010, Pages 681-684

  Solomatin, Sergey V ^a   Greenfeld, Max ^b   Chu, Steven ^c,d   Herschlag, Daniel ^a,e  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RIBOZYME; RNA;

CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PROTEIN; RNA; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; ENZYME KINETICS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGAND BINDING; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA STRUCTURE; TETRAHYMENA; THERMODYNAMICS;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOCATALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; INTRONS; KINETICS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES; RNA, CATALYTIC; TETRAHYMENA; THERMODYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 76249126156     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08717     Document Type: Article

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