Intrinsic flexibility of snRNA hairpin loops facilitates protein binding

RNA

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1984-1995

  Rau, Michael ^a   Stump, W Tom ^a   Hall, Kathleen B ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

2 aminopurine fluorescence; RNA hairpin loops; snRNA stem loops

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOPURINE; ADENINE DERIVATIVE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; NUCLEOTIDE; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DROSOPHILA; FLUORESCENCE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MELTING POINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA HAIRPIN; RNA STRUCTURE; STEADY STATE;

2-AMINOPURINE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RABBITS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84867663419     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.035006.112     Document Type: Article

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