Improving small-angle X-ray scattering data for structural analyses of the RNA world

RNA

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 638-646

  Rambo, Robert P ^a   Tainer, John A ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Misfolded; Modeling; RNA folding; Small angle X ray scattering (SAXS)

Indexed keywords

RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; INTRON; MOSAIC VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RIBOSWITCH; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STRUCTURE; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

MODELS, MOLECULAR; RNA; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

BROME MOSAIC VIRUS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

EID: 77149170364     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.1946310     Document Type: Article

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