Structural Analysis of Multi-Helical RNAs by NMR-SAXS/WAXS: Application to the U4/U6 di-snRNA

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 428, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 777-789

  Cornilescu, Gabriel ^a   Didychuk, Allison L ^a   Rodgers, Margaret L ^a   Michael, Lauren A ^a   Burke, Jordan E ^a   Montemayor, Eric J ^a   Hoskins, Aaron A ^a   Butcher, Samuel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

NMR; RNA; SAXS; spliceosome; structure modeling

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; FUNGAL RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HETERONUCLEAR SINGLE QUANTUM COHERENCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR OVERHAUSER EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STRUCTURE; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; SPLICEOSOME; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U4-U6 SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA, FUNGAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPLICEOSOMES; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84950245428     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: 10898638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2015.11.026     Document Type: Article

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