Thermodynamic origins of monovalent facilitated RNA folding

Biochemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 3732-3743

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; CONCENTRATION CHANGE; ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIALS; EXOTHERMIC PROCESS; EXOTHERMICITY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FOLDING PATHWAY; RNA FOLDING; RNA STRUCTURES; SINGLE-MOLECULE; STRUCTURAL TRANSITIONS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TERTIARY INTERACTIONS; TERTIARY STRUCTURES; TRANSITION STATE; UNIVERSAL MECHANISMS;

ENERGY TRANSFER; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; POSITIVE IONS; THERMODYNAMICS;

RNA;

MONOVALENT CATION; SODIUM ION;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA FOLDING; RNA SEQUENCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TETRAHYMENA; THERMODYNAMICS;

CATIONS, MONOVALENT; ENTROPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETICS; POTASSIUM; RNA; RNA FOLDING; SODIUM; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84860768295     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi201420a     Document Type: Article

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