Heterogeneity and dynamics of the ligand recognition mode in purine-sensing riboswitches

Biochemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 3703-3714

  Jain, Niyati ^a   Zhao, Liang ^a   Liu, John D ^b   Xia, Tianbing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2-AMINOPURINE; APTAMERS; BASE PAIRS; BASE STACKING; BINDING POCKETS; BIOPHYSICAL ANALYSIS; BOUND LIGANDS; BOUND STATE; CHARGE-TRANSFER DYNAMICS; COGNATE LIGANDS; CONFORMATIONAL DISTRIBUTION; DYNAMIC BALANCE; DYNAMIC MOTIONS; ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENTS; ENERGY LANDSCAPE; FEMTOSECOND TIME-RESOLVED; GLOBAL MINIMA; HIGH AFFINITY; HIGH RESOLUTION CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HYDROGEN BONDING INTERACTIONS; HYDROGEN BONDINGS; LIGAND RECOGNITION; MULTIPLE CONFORMATIONS; ON TIME; PICOSECONDS; RELATED COMPOUNDS; RIBOSWITCHES; STACKING INTERACTION; TIME REGIME; TIME-SCALES; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRAFAST DECAY;

BINDING ENERGY; CHARGE TRANSFER; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DYNAMICS; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN BONDS; ION EXCHANGE; MASS TRANSFER;

LIGANDS;

2 AMINOPURINE; ADENINE; APTAMER; GUANINE; LIGAND; URACIL;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HYDROGEN BOND; ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RIBOSWITCH;

2-AMINOPURINE; ADENINE; APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; GUANINE; HYDROGEN BONDING; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, CATALYTIC; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 77951688391     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi1000036     Document Type: Article

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