Single-molecule force spectroscopy of the add adenine riboswitch relates folding to regulatory mechanism

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 7677-7687

  Neupane, Krishna ^a   Yu, Hao ^a   Foster, Daniel A N ^a   Wang, Feng ^b   Woodside, Michael T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; BACTERIAL RNA;

ADD ADENINE RIBOSWITCH; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REPRESSION; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN REFOLDING; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RIBOSWITCH; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSLATION; SINGLE MOLECULE FORCE SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

ADENINE; APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; LIGANDS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBOSWITCH; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 80053216036     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr305     Document Type: Article

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