Mechanism of enhanced mechanical stability of a minimal RNA kissing complex elucidated by nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations

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

Volumn 109, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Chen, Alan A ^a   García, Angel E ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Force microscopy; Markov models; RNA folding

Indexed keywords

ADENINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; DISSOCIATION; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; MOLONEY LEUKEMIA ONCOVIRUS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA KISSING LOOP COMPLEX; RNA STRUCTURE;

KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MOLONEY MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 84862180145     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1119552109     Document Type: Article

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