Sampling the structure of the noncanonical lin-4:lin-14 microRNA:mRNA complex by molecular dynamics simulations

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 114, Issue 49, 2010, Pages 16443-16449

  Balasubramanian, Chandramouli ^a,b   Ojha, Rajendra Prasad ^c   Maiti, Souvik ^a   Desideri, Alessandro ^b  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c D D U GORAKHPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; RNA;

ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; BASE PAIRS; CATALYTIC SITES; COMPUTER MODELING AND SIMULATION; GENE SILENCING; KINKED STRUCTURES; MICRORNA (MIRNA); MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MRNA STRUCTURE; NON-CODING RNAS; POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE REGULATION; STRUCTURAL FEATURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 78650164053     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp104193r     Document Type: Article

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