Cotranscriptional folding kinetics of ribonucleic acid secondary structures
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Cotranscriptional folding kinetics of ribonucleic acid secondary structures.
We develop a systematic helix-based computational method to predict RNA folding kinetics during transcription. In our method, the transcription is modeled as stepwise process, where each step is the transcription of a nucleotide. For each step, the kinetics algorithm predicts the population kinetics, transition pathways, folding intermediates, and the transcriptional folding products. The foldi...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Chemical Physics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0021-9606,1089-7690
DOI: 10.1063/1.3671644