Mutational analysis of the purine riboswitch aptamer domain

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 46, 2007, Pages 13297-13309

  Gilbert, Sunny D ^a   Love, Crystal E ^a   Edwards, Andrea L ^a   Batey, Robert T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOMOLECULES; ENCAPSULATION; LIGANDS; RNA; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PURINE RIBOSWITCH APTAMER DOMAIN;

METABOLISM;

ADENINE; APTAMER; GUANINE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; PURINE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING AFFINITY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RIBOSWITCH;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GUANINE; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PURINES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; THERMODYNAMICS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 36248982074     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi700410g     Document Type: Article

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