Article
Thermodynamic and kinetic analysis of an RNA kissing interaction and its resolution into an extended duplex.
Biophysical journal - 7 Mar 2012
Salim Nilshad, Lamichhane Rajan, Zhao Rui, Banerjee Tuhina, Philip Jane, Rueda David, Feig Andrew L
Abstract excerpt
Kissing hairpin interactions form when the loop residues of two hairpins have Watson-Crick complementarity. In a unimolecular context, kissing interactions are important for tertiary folding and pseudoknot formation, whereas in a bimolecular context, they provide a basis for molecular recognition. In some cases, kissing complexes can be a prelude to strand displacement reactions where the two hairpins resolve to...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Calorimetry
- Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer
- Inverted Repeat Sequences
- Kinetics
- Mutation
- RNA, Double-Stranded
- Thermodynamics
