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SUBMITTER: Yamagami R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5984629 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yamagami Ryota R Bingaman Jamie L JL Frankel Erica A EA Bevilacqua Philip C PC
Nature communications 20180601 1
Most RNA folding studies have been performed under non-physiological conditions of high concentrations (≥10 mM) of Mg<sup>2+</sup><sub>free</sub>, while actual cellular concentrations of Mg<sup>2+</sup><sub>free</sub> are only ~1 mM in a background of greater than 50 mM Mg<sup>2+</sup><sub>total</sub>. To uncover cellular behavior of RNA, we devised cytoplasm mimic systems that include biological concentrations of amino acids, which weakly chelate Mg<sup>2+</sup>. Amino acid-chelated Mg<sup>2+</ ...[more]