Crowding promotes the switch from hairpin to pseudoknot conformation in human telomerase RNA

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 133, Issue 31, 2011, Pages 11858-11861

  Denesyuk, Natalia A ^a   Thirumalai, D ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSE GRAINED MODELS; COMPACT STRUCTURES; ENZYME COMPLEXES; HUMAN TELOMERASE; IN-VITRO; MELTING PROFILES; MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; MONODISPERSE; PSEUDOKNOT; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; SALIENT FEATURES; TELOMERASE ACTIVITY; TERNARY MIXTURES; TWO-COMPONENT; WILD TYPES;

BINARY MIXTURES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MELTING; STABILITY; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

RNA;

RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROGEN BOND; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PSEUDOKNOT; RIBOSOME; RIBOSWITCH;

HUMANS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA; TELOMERASE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79961136147     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja2035128     Document Type: Article

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