Experimental approaches for measuring pKa's in RNA and DNA

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 549, Issue C, 2014, Pages 189-219

  Thaplyal, Pallavi ^a   Bevilacqua, Philip C ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorbance; Fluorescence; NMR; pKa methods; Raman crystallography; Ribozyme; RNA biology; Spectroscopy; Theory

Indexed keywords

BUFFER; DNA; HYDROXIDE; INDICATOR; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RIBOZYME; RNA;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA REPLICATION; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HYDROGEN BOND; INFORMATION PROCESSING; IONIC STRENGTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PH; PKA; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA DEGRADATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; VIRUS REPLICATION; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES; RNA FOLDING; RNA STABILITY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DNA; KINETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; RNA; RNA FOLDING; RNA STABILITY; RNA, CATALYTIC; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 84925404897     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: 15577988     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-801122-5.00009-X     Document Type: Chapter

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