Cotranscriptional folding of a riboswitch at nucleotide resolution

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1124-1131

  Watters, Kyle E ^a,b   Strobel, Eric J ^a,b   Yu, Angela M ^a,b,c   Lis, John T ^d   Lucks, Julius B ^a,d  

^a School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering   (United States)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; FLUORIDE; NUCLEOTIDE; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; RIBOSWITCH;

ACYLATION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; IN VITRO STUDY; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; RIBOSWITCH; RNA FOLDING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBOSWITCH; RNA FOLDING; RNA, BACTERIAL; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84992755504     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.3316     Document Type: Article

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