Structural basis for gene regulation by a thiamine pyrophosphate-sensing riboswitch

Nature

Volumn 441, Issue 7097, 2006, Pages 1167-1171

  Serganov, Alexander ^a   Polonskaia, Anna ^a   Phan, Anh Tuân ^a   Breaker, Ronald R ^b   Patel, Dinshaw J ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; GENES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; RNA; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); VITAMINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI THIM MRNA; GENE REGULATION; THIAMINE PYROPHOSPHATE (TPP); THIAMINE PYROPHOSPHATE-SENSING RIBOSWITCH;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

COCARBOXYLASE; LIGAND; MESSENGER RNA; METAL ION; PICOLINE DERIVATIVE; PYRITHIAMINE; PYROPHOSPHATE; RNA; THIAMINE; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; WATER;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLITE; PROTEIN; RNA; VITAMIN;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; INTERCALATION COMPLEX; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RNA STRUCTURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI;

EID: 33745635350     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04740     Document Type: Article

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