Riboswitches as versatile gene control elements

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 342-348

  Tucker, Brian J ^a   Breaker, Ronald R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPLEX FORMATION; DOWN REGULATION; EUBACTERIUM; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TANDEM REPEAT; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 20444478991     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2005.05.003     Document Type: Review

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