Single transcriptional and translational preQ1 riboswitches adopt similar pre-folded ensembles that follow distinct folding pathways into the same ligand-bound structure

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 10462-10475

  Suddala, Krishna C ^a   Rinaldi, Arlie J ^a   Feng, Jun ^a   Mustoe, Anthony M ^a   Eichhorn, Catherine D ^a   Liberman, Joseph A ^b   Wedekind, Joseph E ^b   Al Hashimi, Hashim M ^a   Brooks, Charles L ^a,c   Walter, Nils G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MAGNESIUM; RNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING AFFINITY; BSU GENE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENE EXPRESSION; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RIBOSWITCH; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; THERMOANAEROBACTER; THERMOANAEROBACTER TENGCONGENSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TTE GENE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGANDS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PYRIMIDINONES; PYRROLES; RIBOSWITCH; RNA FOLDING; THERMOANAEROBACTER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84890410887     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt798     Document Type: Article

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