RNAのヘアピン安定性に対する単価イオンの効果の測定

Jeffrey Vieregg1, Wei Cheng, Carlos Bustamante

  • 1Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. jvieregg@berkeley.edu

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まとめ

単価イオンはRNAのヘアピン安定性に大きく影響し,効果は配列とイオンタイプによって異なります. この研究は,光学ピンチを使ってこれらの効果を定量化し,RNAの折り畳みダイナミクスの理解を深める.

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