Multiple conformational states of riboswitches fine-tune gene regulation

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 30, Issue , 2015, Pages 112-124

  Fürtig, Boris ^a   Nozinovic, Senada ^a   Reining, Anke ^a   Schwalbe, Harald ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; APTAMER; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; RIBOSWITCH;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BINDING AFFINITY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; LIGAND BINDING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSWITCH; RNA BINDING; RNA CONFORMATION; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; BIOPHYSICS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; BIOPHYSICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RIBOSWITCH;

EID: 84923601441     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2015.02.007     Document Type: Review

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