Double-stranded RNA under force and torque: Similarities to and striking differences from double-stranded DNA

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

Volumn 111, Issue 43, 2014, Pages 15408-15413

  Lipferta, Jan ^a,b   Skinnera, Gary M ^a,d   Keegstraa, Johannes M ^a,e   Hensgensa, Toivo ^a   Jagera, Tessa ^a   Dulina, David ^a   Köber, Mariana ^a   Yu, Zhongbo ^a   Donkers, Serge P ^a   Chou, Fang Chieh ^c   Das, Rhiju ^c   Dekker, Nynke H ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Departments of Physics Stanford University ^*  (United Kingdom)

^e FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Force; Magnetic tweezers; Nucleic acids; RNA; Torque

Indexed keywords

BIOTIN; DIGOXIGENIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; STREPTAVIDIN; DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL SURFACE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; FORCE; IONIC STRENGTH; MECHANICAL TORSION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA CONFORMATION; TORQUE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; MAGNETISM; THERMODYNAMICS;

DNA; MAGNETIC PHENOMENA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; THERMODYNAMICS; TORQUE;

EID: 84908583733     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1407197111     Document Type: Article

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