Primary Recipient

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$70,000.00

Award Date

9/30/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

We request funding to purchase a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) instrument in support of our ongoing mechanistic studies of catalytic RNA molecules including the hairpin ribozyme. A key step in the reaction mechanism of the hairpin is the docking transi