Bacterial Riboswitches Cooperatively Bind Ni2+ or Co2+ Ions and Control Expression of Heavy Metal Transporters

Molecular Cell

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1088-1098

  Furukawa, Kazuhiro ^a,d   Ramesh, Arati ^c,e   Zhou, Zhiyuan ^a   Weinberg, Zasha ^b   Vallery, Tenaya ^a   Winkler, Wade C ^c   Breaker, Ronald R ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^e TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; BACTERIAL RNA; COBALT; NICKEL; UNTRANSLATED RNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; RIBOSWITCH;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CLOSTRIDIUM CELLULOLYTICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM SCINDENS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; ERYSIPELOTRICHACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION; HILL COEFFICIENT; HOMEOSTASIS; LIGAND BINDING; METAL BINDING; NONHUMAN; RIBOSWITCH; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WILD TYPE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CLOSTRIDIUM; COBALT; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NICKEL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBOSWITCH; RNA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84925068422     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2015.02.009     Document Type: Article

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