Competitive folding of anti-terminator/terminator hairpins monitored by single molecule FRET

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2632-2643

  Clerte, Caroline ^a,b   Declerck, Nathalie ^a,b   Margeat, Emmanuel ^a,b  

^a CENTRE DE BIOCHIMIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING COMPETITION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA FOLDING; RNA HAIRPIN; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE MOLECULE FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA FOLDING; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TERMINATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 84876382217     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks1315     Document Type: Article

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