Purine sensing by riboswitches

Biology of the Cell

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-11

  Kim, Jane N ^a   Breaker, Ronald R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenine; Allosteric RNA; Aptamer; Guanine; Riboswitch; RNA switch

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; APTAMER; DEOXYGUANOSINE; DEZAGUANINE; GUANINE; MESSENGER RNA; PURINE; PURINE DERIVATIVE; RNA POLYMERASE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BASE PAIRING; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA DETERMINATION; DRUG TARGETING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; LIGAND BINDING; MESOPLASMA FLORUM; METABOLITE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN VARIANT; PURINE METABOLISM; REVIEW; RIBOSWITCH; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TARGET CELL; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; WILD TYPE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; BINDING SITES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PURINES; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 38849103659     PISSN: 02484900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BC20070088     Document Type: Review

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