Ion-Mediated RNA Structural Collapse: Effect of Spatial Confinement
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Ion-mediated RNA structural collapse: effect of spatial confinement.
RNAs are negatively charged molecules that reside in cellular environments with macromolecular crowding. Macromolecular confinement can influence the ion effects in RNA folding. In this work, using the recently developed tightly bound ion model for ion fluctuation and correlation, we investigate the effect of confinement on ion-mediated RNA structural collapse for a simple model system. We find...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biophysical Journal
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0006-3495
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.06.048