Structure of a natural guanine-responsive riboswitch complexed with the metabolite hypoxanthine

Nature

Volumn 432, Issue 7015, 2004, Pages 411-415

  Batey, Robert T ^a   Gilbert, Sunny D ^a   Montange, Rebecca K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; COMPLEXATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENES; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; PROTEINS;

GENETIC REGULATORY ELEMENTS; NUCLEOTIDES; RIBOSWITCHES;

RNA;

GUANINE; HYPOXANTHINE; MESSENGER RNA;

METABOLITE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC REGULATION; HYDROGEN BOND; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PURINE METABOLISM; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GUANINE; HYPOXANTHINE; LIGANDS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERON; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 9244225713     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03037     Document Type: Article

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