RNA Aptamer (IMAGE)

Goethe University Frankfurt

RNA Aptamer

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Frankfurt researchers followed the movements of this tiny molecule - just two-thousandths of the thickness of a piece of paper. The RNA aptamer changes its structure when it binds hypoxanthine. The green nucleobases change shape particularly quickly, the ones coloured blue more slowly. The grey regions do not change.

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