Riboswitch function: Flipping the switch or tuning the dimmer?

RNA Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Baird, Nathan J ^a,b   Kulshina, Nadia ^b,c   Ferré D'Amaré, Adrian R ^a,c  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; Non coding RNA; RNA folding; SAXS; Small molecule binding; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVIEW; RIBOSWITCH;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RIBOSWITCH; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 77955500520     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.7.3.11932     Document Type: Review

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