A theophylline responsive riboswitch based on helix slipping controls gene expression in vivo

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1610-1614

  Suess, Beatrix ^a   Fink, Barbara ^a   Berens, Christian ^a   Stentz, Régis ^a   Hillen, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; RNA; THEOPHYLLINE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; IN VIVO STUDY; LIGAND BINDING; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RIBOSOME; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STRUCTURE; TRANSLATION REGULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA; THEOPHYLLINE;

EID: 2542601538     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh321     Document Type: Article

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