Molecular sensing by the aptamer domain of the FMN riboswitch: A general model for ligand binding by conformational selection

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 8586-8598

  Vicens, Quentin ^a   Mondragón, Estefanía ^a   Batey, Robert T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; FLAVINE MONONUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RIBOSWITCH; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; FLAVIN MONONUCLEOTIDE; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; LIGANDS; MAGNESIUM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBOSWITCH; RNA FOLDING; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 80455178803     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr565     Document Type: Article

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