Fluorescence probing of T box antiterminator RNA: Insights into riboswitch discernment of the tRNA discriminator base

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 389, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 616-621

  Means, John A ^a   Simson, Crystal M ^a   Zhou, Shu ^a   Rachford, Aaron A ^a   Rack, Jeffrey J ^a   Hines, Jennifer V ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

2 Aminopurine; Fluorescence; Riboswitch; RNA; T box; Transcription

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOPURINE; MAGNESIUM ION; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; FIELD EMISSION; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSWITCH; RNA BINDING;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MAGNESIUM; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBOSOMES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, TRANSFER; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TERMINATOR REGIONS, GENETIC;

POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 70349734575     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.09.037     Document Type: Article

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