Molecular dynamics study of the controlled destabilization of an RNA hairpin structure by a covalently attached azobenzene switch

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 118, Issue 29, 2014, Pages 8478-8488

  Rastädter, Dominique ^a   Biswas, Mithun ^a   Burghardt, Irene ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZOBENZENE; CHROMOPHORES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; RNA;

AZOBENZENE CHROMOPHORE; CHARACTERISTIC TIME; CONFORMATIONAL CHANGE; DESTABILIZING EFFECT; ENHANCED SAMPLINGS; EQUILIBRIUM SIMULATIONS; FOLDING AND UNFOLDING; REPLICA EXCHANGE MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

BIOINFORMATICS;

AZO COMPOUND; AZOBENZENE; RNA;

BASE PAIRING; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DNA DENATURATION; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; HYDROGEN BOND; INVERTED REPEAT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

AZO COMPOUNDS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; HYDROGEN BONDING; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; RNA; RNA STABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84905041525     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp501399k     Document Type: Article

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