Comparative study between transcriptionally- and translationally-acting adenine riboswitches reveals key differences in riboswitch regulatory mechanisms

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Lemay, Jean François ^a   Desnoyers, Guillaume ^b   Blouin, Simon ^a   Heppell, Benoit ^a   Bastet, Laurène ^a   St Pierre, Patrick ^a   Massé, Eric ^b   Lafontaine, Daniel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; APTAMER; BACTERIAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BINDING KINETICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; RIBOSWITCH; RNA BINDING; RNA STABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

ADENINE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSWITCH; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

EID: 79851499341     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001278     Document Type: Article

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