Molecular dynamics simulation study of the binding of purine bases to the aptamer domain of the guanine sensing riboswitch

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 4774-4786

  Villa, Alessandra ^a,b   Wöhnert, Jens ^a   Stock, Gerhard ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; APTAMER; GUANINE; PURINE;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DISSOCIATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC REGULATION; HYDROGEN BOND; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RIBOSWITCH; RNA STRUCTURE; SIMULATION;

ADENINE; APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GUANINE; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

EID: 69049108817     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp486     Document Type: Article

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