title: Energy-level statistics in the fine conformational resolution of RNA folding dynamics.
abstract: This work is aimed at determining the energy-level statistics of the fine resolution of soft-mode dynamics warranting an adiabatically simplified structural relaxation of a folding biopolymer chain. The parameters defining the intrabasin structure relaxation are specified for RNA, so that each Watson-Crick base-pairing pattern may be treated as a quasiequilibrium ensemble of substates or torsional isomers within relevant folding time scales. The temperature-dependent threshold for energy dispersion associated with the fine structure of each superbasin is determined so as to warrant the adiabatic entrainment of the torsional dynamics.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Matemática, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Avenida Alem 1253, Bahía Blanca 8000, Argentina.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fernández
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Burastero
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Salthú
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tablar
mesh_terms: D020029:Base Pairing; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002627:Chemistry, Physical; D008956:Models, Chemical; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D012313:RNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D012313:RNA