Advances in the determination of nucleic acid conformational ensembles

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volumn 65, Issue , 2014, Pages 293-316

  Salmon, Loïc ^a   Yang, Shan ^a   Al Hashimi, Hashim M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

atomically resolved reaction dynamics; femtosecond electron diffraction; high brightness electron source development; mode coupling in transition state regions; nanofluidics for electron probes; structure function correlation of biological systems

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATIONS; GENES; NANOFLUIDICS; REACTION KINETICS; RNA; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; X RAY SCATTERING;

ATOMICALLY RESOLVED REACTION DYNAMIC; ELECTRON PROBE; FEMTOSECOND ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; HIGH BRIGHTNESS; HIGH-BRIGHTNESS ELECTRON SOURCE DEVELOPMENT; MODE COUPLING; MODE COUPLING IN TRANSITION STATE REGION; NANOFLUIDIC FOR ELECTRON PROBE; REACTION DYNAMICS; STRUCTURE-FUNCTION CORRELATION; STRUCTURE-FUNCTION CORRELATION OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEM; TRANSITION STATE;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

DNA; RNA;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROCEDURES; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALS; DNA; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84897523651     PISSN: 0066426X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-040412-110059     Document Type: Article

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