Dissecting electrostatic screening, specific ion binding, and ligand binding in an energetic model for glycine riboswitch folding

RNA

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 708-719

  Lipfert, Jan ^a,b   Sim, Adelene Y L ^a   Herschlag, Daniel ^a   Doniach, Sebastian ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Riboswitches; RNA aptamers; RNA folding; Small angle X ray scattering; Specific ion binding

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; CALCIUM; DIVALENT CATION; GLYCINE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; MONOVALENT CATION;

ARTICLE; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; RIBOSWITCH; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CATIONS, DIVALENT; GLYCINE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 77950292093     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.1985110     Document Type: Article

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