Entropic origin of Mg 2+-facilitated RNA folding

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

Volumn 109, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2902-2907

  Fiore, Julie L ^a   Holmstrom, Erik D ^a   Nesbitt, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUNTERION; MAGNESIUM; RNA; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; ION TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR DOCKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA FOLDING; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMODYNAMICS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TIME; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

BASE SEQUENCE; ENTROPY; MAGNESIUM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES; RNA FOLDING; TIME FACTORS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84857410608     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1114859109     Document Type: Article

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