Insights into the regulatory landscape of the lysine riboswitch

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 423, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-33

  Garst, Andrew D ^a   Porter, Ely B ^a   Batey, Robert T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

kinetics; riboswitch; RNA structure; transcriptional regulation; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOPURINE; AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; APTAMER; LYSINE;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; RECEPTOR BINDING; RIBOSWITCH; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

EID: 84866340759     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: 10898638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2012.06.038     Document Type: Article

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