Differences between cotranscriptional and free riboswitch folding

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2687-2696

  Lutz, Benjamin ^a   Faber, Michael ^b   Verma, Abhinav ^a   Klumpp, Stefan ^b   Schug, Alexander ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; APTAMER; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE I; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONFORMATION; COTRANSCRIPTIONAL RIBOSWITCH FOLDING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY TRANSFER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LIGAND BINDING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; RIBOSWITCH; RNA FOLDING; RNA TRANSLATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMOANAEROBACTER; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RIBOSWITCH; RNA FOLDING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84895799734     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1213     Document Type: Article

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