Folding and ligand recognition of the TPP riboswitch aptamer at single-molecule resolution

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 4188-4193

  Haller, Andrea ^a   Altman, Roger B ^b   Soulière, Marie F ^a   Blanchard, Scott C ^b   Micura, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allosteric effect; Ergodicity; RNA; Site specific labeling; Structural preorganization

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; COCARBOXYLASE; MAGNESIUM;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DISPERSION; DNA HELIX; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PROBE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RIBOSWITCH; RNA FOLDING; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBOSWITCH; RNA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84875043544     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1218062110     Document Type: Article

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