Analysis of lysine recognition and specificity of the Bacillus subtilis L box riboswitch

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 5706-5717

  Wilson Mitchell, Sharnise N ^a   Grundy, Frank J ^a   Henkin, Tina M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; LYSINE; POTASSIUM ION; RIBONUCLEASE H;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; RIBOSWITCH; RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; WILD TYPE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ASPARTATE KINASE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIGANDS; LYSINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POTASSIUM; RIBOSWITCH; RNA, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84863193242     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks212     Document Type: Article

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