Bacterial Riboswitch Discovery and Analysis

The Chemical Biology of Nucleic Acids

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 433-454

  Ames, Tyler D ^a   Breaker, Ronald R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial riboswitch discovery and analysis; Bioinformatics approaches to riboswitch discovery; Common riboswitch architectures expression platforms controlling transcription termination; Riboswitch candidates biochemical and genetic validation; Riboswitches structural and mechanistic complexity; RNA molecules as sensors and metabolite sensing switches gene expression control; Solving gene control mysteries ribozyme biochemistry and nucleic acid evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952224273     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470664001.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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