Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Visualizing RNA conformational and architectural heterogeneity in solution

  • Jienyu Ding,
  • Yun-Tzai Lee,
  • Yuba Bhandari,
  • Charles D. Schwieters,
  • Lixin Fan,
  • Ping Yu,
  • Sergey G. Tarosov,
  • Jason R. Stagno,
  • Buyong Ma,
  • Ruth Nussinov,
  • Alan Rein,
  • Jinwei Zhang,
  • Yun-Xing Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36184-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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RNA conformational heterogeneity is important to diverse functions. Here, the authors use AFM to directly visualize individual RNA molecules that are in various conformational states under near physiological solution conditions for the first time.