Hierarchy of RNA functional dynamics

Annual Review of Biochemistry

Volumn 83, Issue , 2014, Pages 441-466

  Mustoe, Anthony M ^a   Brooks, Charles L ^a,b   Al Hashimi, Hashim M ^c  

^a Departments of Biophysics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

molecular adaptation; regulatory RNA; riboswitches; RNA catalysis; RNA flexibility

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RIBOZYME; RNA; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE; TRANSFER RNA; LIGAND; PROTEIN;

BASE PAIRING; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; HUMAN; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; ISOMERIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RIBOSWITCH; RNA DYNAMICS; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; THERMORECEPTOR; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; KINETICS; MOTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PH; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

BASE PAIRING; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; LIGANDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOTION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; RNA; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84902192900     PISSN: 00664154     EISSN: 15454509     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biochem-060713-035524     Document Type: Review

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