Programmed -1 frameshifting efficiency correlates with RNA pseudoknot conformational plasticity, not resistance to mechanical unfolding

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

Volumn 109, Issue 40, 2012, Pages 16167-16172

  Ritchie, Dustin B ^a   Foster, Daniel A N ^a   Woodside, Michael T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Force spectroscopy; Gene regulation; RNA folding; Translation

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS; LUTEOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAMMED 1 RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; RETROVIRUS; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STRUCTURE;

BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; FRAMESHIFTING, RIBOSOMAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CORONAVIRUS;

EID: 84867036862     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1204114109     Document Type: Article

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