The long and the short of riboswitches

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 251-259

  Serganov, Alexander ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAVINE MONONUCLEOTIDE; LYSINE; MAGNESIUM ION; MESSENGER RNA;

CELL METABOLISM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIBOSWITCH; RNA BINDING; RNA METABOLISM; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 66549094626     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2009.02.002     Document Type: Review

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