Structural Insights into Ligand Recognition by a Sensing Domain of the Cooperative Glycine Riboswitch

Molecular Cell

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 774-786

  Huang, Lili ^a   Serganov, Alexander ^a   Patel, Dinshaw J ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; GLYCINE; MAGNESIUM ION;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERCALATION COMPLEX; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RIBOSWITCH; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BINDING SITES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLYCINE; LIGANDS; MAGNESIUM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBOSWITCH; RNA, BACTERIAL;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 78649970557     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2010.11.026     Document Type: Article

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