Rapid compaction during RNA folding
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Rapid compaction during RNA folding.
We have used small angle x-ray scattering and computer simulations with a coarse-grained model to provide a time-resolved picture of the global folding process of the Tetrahymena group I RNA over a time window of more than five orders of magnitude. A substantial phase of compaction is observed on the low millisecond timescale, and the overall compaction and global shape changes are largely comp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.072589599