Molecular-crowding effects on single-molecule RNA folding/unfolding thermodynamics and kinetics

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

Volumn 111, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 8464-8469

  Dupuis, Nicholas F ^a   Holmstrom, Erik D ^a   Nesbitt, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; PEG; Scaled particle theory

Indexed keywords

MACROGOL 8000;

ARTICLE; ENTROPY; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; KINETICS; MOLECULAR CROWDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA FOLDING; THERMODYNAMICS;

FLUORESCENCE; PEG; SCALED PARTICLE THEORY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOCYANINES; ENTROPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENT DYES; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; RNA; RNA FOLDING; SOLUTIONS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84902181715     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1316039111     Document Type: Article

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