Folding of the lysine riboswitch: Importance of peripheral elements for transcriptional regulation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3373-3387

  Blouin, Simon ^a   Chinnappan, Raja ^a   Lafontaine, Daniel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; LYSINE; MAGNESIUM ION;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RIBOSWITCH; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIGANDS; LYSINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POINT MUTATION; RIBOSWITCH; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 79955604950     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1247     Document Type: Article

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