Folding energy landscape of the thiamine pyrophosphate riboswitch aptamer

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1485-1489

  Anthony, Peter C ^a   Perez, Christian F ^a   García García, Cuauhtémoc ^a   Block, Steven M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical trapping; Optical tweezers; Single molecule; Single molecule biophysics

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; COCARBOXYLASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; LIGAND; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ENERGY; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RIBOSWITCH; RNA STRUCTURE; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; BASE SEQUENCE; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBOSWITCH; THIAMINE PYROPHOSPHATE;

EID: 84857133512     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1115045109     Document Type: Article

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