Equilibrium conformational dynamics in an RNA tetraloop from massively parallel molecular dynamics

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 4856-4867

  DePaul, Allison J ^a   Thompson, Erik J ^a   Patel, Sarav S ^a   Haldeman, Kristin ^a   Sorin, Eric J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MINING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

MARKOV CHAINS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 77955817276     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq134     Document Type: Article

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