Session: Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions: Experimental and Modeling Analysis


COMP		Tuesday, August 21, 2007

8:00 AM-12:15 PM BCEC -- 156B, Oral
Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions: Experimental and Modeling Analysis

Organizer:	Mihaela Rita Mihailescu
Presiding:	Lakshmi Menon
8:00 AM	216	Polyelectrolyte behavior and dynamics of three-way RNA junctions and random RNA sequences Udayan Mohanty
8:30 AM	217	Isostructural does not mean isoenergetic: Computational studies of the mechanism of recognition of oxidative DNA damage Carlos L Simmerling, Kun Song
9:00 AM	218	Single molecule folding reveals mechanism of ribozyme action Nils G. Walter, Chamaree de Silva
9:30 AM	219	The smn complex: A molecular assembly machine for rnps Gideon Dreyfuss
10:00 AM		Intermission
10:15 AM	220	Mechanistic studies of nucleic acid chaperone activity of retroviral nucleocapsid proteins Karin Musier-Forsyth, Mithun Mitra, Kristen M. Stewart-Maynard, My-Nuong Vo, Margareta Cruceanu, Fei Wang, Robert J. Gorelick, Mark C. Williams, Ioulia Rouzina
10:45 AM	221	Using structural superposition for the analysis of protein-RNA Yousif Shamoo
11:15 AM	222	RNA structural bioinformatics of RNA-Protein interactions Neocles B. Leontis
11:45 AM	223	On the dynamics of some small structural motifs in rRNA upon ligand binding Aleksandra Rakic, Petar M Mitrasinovic

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