Mechanistic insights into an engineered riboswitch: A switching element which confers riboswitch activity

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3363-3372

  Weigand, Julia E ^a   Schmidtke, Sina R ^a   Will, Tristan J ^a   Duchardt Ferner, Elke ^a   Hammann, Christian ^b   Wöhnert, Jens ^a   Suess, Beatrix ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; NEOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; LIGAND BINDING; MELTING POINT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RIBOSWITCH; RNA BINDING; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTABILITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LIGANDS; NEOMYCIN; RIBOSWITCH; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79955613663     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq946     Document Type: Article

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