Unraveling the structural complexity in a single-stranded RNA tail: Implications for efficient ligand binding in the prequeuosine riboswitch

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1345-1355

  Eichhorn, Catherine D ^a   Feng, Jun ^a   Suddala, Krishna C ^a   Walter, Nils G ^a   Brooks, Charles L ^a,b   Al Hashimi, Hashim M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SINGLE STRANDED RNA;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSWITCH; RNA STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

ADENINE; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MUTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PYRIMIDINONES; PYRROLES; RIBOSWITCH; RNA; RNA STABILITY;

EID: 84863405959     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr833     Document Type: Article

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