BPS Program Book 2014

RNA Structure and Dynamics I (Boards #B159-#B188)

1416-P os B oard #B146 KINETICS OF DNA THREADING INTERCALATION BY A RIGID RUTHENIUM COMPLEX DIMER. Ali A. Almaqwashi , Thayaparan Paramanathan, Per Lincoln, Ioulia Rouzina, Fredrik Westerlund, Mark C. Williams 1417-P os B oard #B147 SINGLE MOLECULE FORCE MEASUREMENTS OF DNA AND RNA HAIRPIN STRUCTURES. Mathilde Bercy , Ulrich Bockelmann 1418-P os B oard #B148 DNA-INTERCALATION KINETICS ELUCIDATED BY SINGLE-DYE FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY AND FORCE SPECTROSCOPY. Andreas S. Biebricher, Iddo Heller , Erwin J. G. Peterman, Gijs J. L. Wuite 1419-P os B oard #B149 SIMULTANEOUS DNA STRETCHING AND INTERCALATION IN CONTINUOUS ELONGATIONAL FLOW. Joshua W. Griffis, Mikhail M. Safranovitch, Shilpi P. Vyas, Andrew Nicholson, Gene Malkin, Robert H. Meltzer 1420-P os B oard #B150 EFFECT OF AXIAL LIGAND ON THE BINDING MODE OF M- MESO -TETRAKIS( N -METHYLPYRIDINIUM-4-YL)PORPHYRIN TO DNA AND THEIR EFFICIENCY AS AN ACCEPTOR IN DNA-MEDIATED ENERGY TRANSFER. Seog K. Kim , Yoon Jung Jang 1421-P os B oard #B151 QUANTIFYING THE DNA BINDING KINETICS OF A RUTHENIUMDIMER COMPLEXWITH A FLEXIBLE LINKER. Meriem Bahira , Micah McCauley, Sean Malley, Ioulia Rouzina, Fredrik Westerlund, Mark C. Williams 1422-P os B oard #B152 EFFECT OF IONIC STRENGTH ON END-TETHERED SSDNA MOLECULES ON GOLD SURFACES. Maryse Dadina Nkoua Ngavouka , Pietro Parisse, Alessandro Bosco, Loredana Casalis 1423-P os B oard #B153 SINGLE MOLECULE FORCE CONTROL DRIVES THE RAPID ASSEMBLY OF DNA NANOSTRUCTURE. Wooli Bae , Kipom Kim, Duyoung Min, Je-Kyung Ryu, Changbong Hyeon, Tae-Young Yoon 1424-P os B oard #B154 INTERACTION OF DNA A-TRACT OLIGOMERS WITH MONOVALENT CATIONS. Earle Stellwagen , Qian Dong, Nancy C. Stellwagen 1425-P os B oard #B155 ELASTIC TWIST DYNAMICS OF DNA. Edward J. Banigan , John F. Marko 1426-P os B oard #B156 STRONGLY BENT DNA: RECONCILING THEORY AND EXPERIMENT. Aleksander Drozdetski , Abhishek Mukhopadhyay, Alexey Onufriev 1427-P os B oard #B157 ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY OF DNA IS CONTROLLED BY THE SURFACE CHARGE DENSITY, NOT THE LINEAR CHARGE

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1429-P os B oard #B159 SUGAR ALCOHOL OSMOLYTES DEMONSTRATE THE VISCOSITY DEPENDENT FOLDING KINETICS OF RNATERTIARY STRUCTURAL MOTIFS. Nicholas Dupuis , David Nesbitt 1430-P os B oard #B160 DE NOVO FOLDING OF RNA HAIRPINS BY TEMPERATURE REPLICA EXCHANGE. Jacob C. Miner , Alan A. Chen, Angel E. Garcia 1431-P os B oard #B161 EXPLORING THE ENERGY LANDSCAPE OF RNA: A DIRECT EVALUATION OF THE COUNTERION MEDIATED FREE ENERGY. Paul S. Henke , Chi H. Mak 1432-P os B oard #B162 L-PROLINE DESTABILIZATION OF RNA DUPLEXES IS TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT. Jeffrey J. Schwinefus , Ryan Menssen, Lucas Haase 1433-P os B oard #B163 TARGETING THE HEPATITIS C VIRUS WITH PNAS. Damian S. McAninch , Arunava Manna, Danith Ly, Mihaela-Rita Mihailescu 1434-P os B oard #B164 TIME-RESOLVED AND DYNAMIC STUDIES OF RIBOSWITCHES. Andrew Longhini 1435-P os B oard #B165 RNA STRUCTURAL REARRANGEMENTS DURING REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION IN HIV. Aaron Coey , Margreth Mpossi, Elisabetta Viani-Puglisi, Joseph Puglisi 1436-P os B oard #B166 EXPLORING THE GENOTYPE/PHENOTYPE LANDSCAPE OF SELF-ASSEMBLING MODULES IN RNA. Paul Zakrevsky , Erin R. Calkins, Luc Jaeger 1437-P os B oard #B167 THE INFLUENCE OF THE FORM OF TRNA ON COMPLEX FORMATIONWITH PORPHYRINS. Ishkhan Vardanyan , Yeva Dalyan 1438-P os B oard #B168 minority affairs travel awardee STUDYING DYNAMICS AND CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES IN THE GLYCINE RIBOSWITCH USING ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY. Jacqueline M. Esquiaqui , Gail E. Fanucci, Jingdong Ye 1439-P os B oard #B169 THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE CONFORMATIONAL STRUCTURE OF HIV RNA. Xiao Fan, Yanyan Li, Yingya Liu, Po Wang, Haitao Li 1440-P os B oard #B170 EXPLOITING CO-TRANSCRIPTIONAL FOLDING AND PROCESSING OF NASCENT MESSENGER RNA FOR MODULATING SPECIFIC EXON SPLICING. Jing Lin , Keng Boon Wee, Zacharias Aloysius Dwi Pramono, Uttam Surana 1441-P os B oard #B171 STRUCTURAL POLYMORPHISM OF (CAG)N REPEAT RNA ELUCIDATED USING SINGLE MOLECULE NANOMANIPULATION. William T. Stephenson , Sean Keller, Scott A. Tenenbaum, Michael Zuker, Pan T.X. Li

DENSITY AS EXPECTED FROM COUNTERION CONDENSATION THEORY. Nancy C. Stellwagen 1428-P os B oard #B158

THERMODYNAMICS AND KINETICS OF THREE DISTINCT OVERSTRETCHED DNA STRUCTURES PRODUCED BY LARGE TENSION. Xinghua Zhang, Jie Yan

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