Browsing by Subject "metal ions"
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(2009-05-15)Metal ions are important for medical, environmental and catalytic applications. They are used as precursor molecules for the manufacture of metal nanocatalysts, which are promising materials for an array of biomedical, ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)This dissertation focuses on the spectroscopic and thermodynamic characterization of the unusual metal-RNA cluster found in the P5abc subdomain of the Tetrahymena group I intron. The P5abc subdomain is a part of the P4-P6 ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)The hairpin ribozyme is a small catalytic RNA that cleaves a phosphodiester bond. In order for cleavage to occur, the hairpin ribozyme must properly fold into its docked conformation, in which the two loops interact to ...