Comparative Sequence and Structure Analysis Reveals the Conservation and Diversity of Nucleotide Positions and Their Associated Tertiary Interactions in the Riboswitches

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Appasamy, Sri D ^a   Ramlan, Effirul Ikhwan ^b   Firdaus Raih, Mohd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; LIGAND BINDING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DATA BANK; RIBOSWITCH; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TERTIARY MOTIF;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; RIBOSWITCH; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84883529362     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073984     Document Type: Article

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