Core requirements of the adenine riboswitch aptamer for ligand binding

RNA

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 339-350

  Lemay, Jean François ^a   LaFontaine, Daniel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aptamer; Fluorescence spectroscopy; Molecular recognition; Riboswitch; RNA folding; RNA structure

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOPURINE; ADENINE;

ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; LIGAND BINDING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RIBOSWITCH;

2-AMINOPURINE; ADENINE; APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 33847308180     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.142007     Document Type: Article

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