The purine riboswitch as a model system for exploring RNA biology and chemistry

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1839, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 919-930

  Porter, Ely B ^a   Marcano Velázquez, Joan G ^a   Batey, Robert T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Co transcriptional folding; Gene expression; Purine; Riboswitch; RNA structure

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; APTAMER; DEOXYGUANOSINE; FLAVINE MONONUCLEOTIDE; GUANINE; PURINE;

CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BOND; ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY; LIGAND BINDING; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PURINE RIBOSWITCH; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RIBOSWITCH; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA FOLDING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 84908067664     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: 18764320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2014.02.014     Document Type: Review

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