Non-Protein Coding Rnas (Hardcover, 2009)

RNA 3D Structural Motifs: Definition, Identification, Annotation, and Database Searching.- Theory of RNA Folding: From Hairpins to Ribozymes.- Thermodynamics and Kinetics of RNA Unfolding and Refolding.- Ribozyme Catalysis of Phosphodiester Bond Isomerization: The Hammerhead RNA and Its Relatives.- The Small Ribozymes: Common and Diverse Features Observed Through the FRET Lens.- Structure and Mechanism of the glmS Ribozyme.- Group I Ribozymes as a Paradigm for RNA Folding and Evolution.- Group II Introns and Their Protein Collaborators.- Understanding the Role of Metal Ions in RNA Folding and Function: Lessons from RNase P, a Ribonucleoprotein Enzyme.- Beyond Crystallography: Investigating the Conformational Dynamics of the Purine Riboswitch.- Ligand Binding and Conformational Changes in the Purine-Binding Riboswitch Aptamer Domains.- The RNA-Protein Complexes of E. coli Hfq: Form and Function.- Assembly of the Human Signal Recognition Particle.- Forms and Functions of Telomerase RNA.- Ribosomal Dynamics: Intrinsic Instability of a Molecular Machine.- Biophysical Analyses of IRES RNAs from the Dicistroviridae: Linking Architecture to Function.- Structure and Gene-Silencing Mechanisms of Small Noncoding RNAs.