Nucleotides adjacent to the ligand-binding pocket are linked to activity tuning in the purine riboswitch

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 425, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1596-1611

  Stoddard, Colby D ^a   Widmann, Jeremy ^a   Trausch, Jeremiah J ^a   Marcano Velázquez, Joan G ^a   Knight, Rob ^a   Batey, Robert T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

activity tuning; mutual information; riboswitch; RNA structure; transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; NUCLEOTIDE; PURINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ENTROPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LIGAND BINDING; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RIBOSWITCH; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 84877582071     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: 10898638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2013.02.023     Document Type: Article

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