Adenine riboswitches and gene activation by disruption of a transcription terminator

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 29-35

  Mandal, Maumita ^a   Breaker, Ronald R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; AMINO ACID; GUANINE; LIGAND; PROTEIN; PURINE DERIVATIVE; RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BASE PAIRING; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SWITCHING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; YDHL GENE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ADENINE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, SWITCH; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TERMINATOR REGIONS (GENETICS);

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0842334528     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb710     Document Type: Article

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