Molecular recognition and function of riboswitches

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 279-286

  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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PURINE; S ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINE;

BINDING AFFINITY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RIBOSWITCH; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA FOLDING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

LIGANDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PURINES; RIBOSWITCH; RNA, MESSENGER; S-ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINE;

EID: 84862591360     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2012.04.005     Document Type: Review

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