 Thermodynamic characterization of naturally occurring RNA tetraloops by Justin P. Sheehy and others

RNA16(2),417–429(2010), DOI10.1261/rna.1773110. Primary byline Justin P. Sheehy, Amber R. Davis and Brent M. Znosko; Department of Chemistry, Saint Louis University. Abstract: optical melting of24 common-tetraloop stem-loop sequences and determination of thermodynamic parameters and melting temperatures. Full-text Materials and Methods describes absorbance-versus-temperature curves. Primary archive pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2811670/ .