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Visualizing the formation of an RNA folding intermediate through a fast highly modular secondary structure switch.
Nature communications - 13 Jun 2016
Xue Yi, Gracia Brant, Herschlag Daniel, Russell Rick, Al-Hashimi Hashim M
Abstract excerpt
Intermediates play important roles in RNA folding but can be difficult to characterize when short-lived or not significantly populated. By combining (15)N relaxation dispersion NMR with chemical probing, we visualized a fast (kex=k1+k-1≈423 s(-1)) secondary structural switch directed towards a low-populated (∼3%) partially folded intermediate in tertiary folding of the P5abc subdomain of the 'Tetrahymena' group I...
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