Metabolite recognition principles and molecular mechanisms underlying riboswitch function

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 343-370

  Serganov, Alexander ^a   Patel, Dinshaw J ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ligand binding pockets; Metal ions; NMR; RNA structure and folding; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

RIBOZYME;

GENE EXPRESSION; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIBOSWITCH; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA FOLDING; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIA; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIGANDS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBOSWITCH; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84861405805     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: 19361238     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-101211-113224     Document Type: Review

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