Molecular crowders and cosolutes promote folding cooperativity of RNA under physiological ionic conditions

RNA

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 331-347

  Strulson, Christopher A ^a,b   Boyer, Joshua A ^a,b   Whitman, Elisabeth E ^a,b   Bevilacqua, Philip C ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological cosolutes; Folding cooperativity; Macromolecular crowding; Temperature dependent structure mapping; TRNA

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL COSOLUTES; FOLDING COOPERATIVITY; MACROMOLECULAR CROWDING; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT STRUCTURE MAPPING; TRNA;

CACODYLIC ACID; KINETICS; MAGNESIUM; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RNA; RNA FOLDING; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84894281794     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.042747.113     Document Type: Article

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