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Structural basis for diversity in the SAM clan of riboswitches.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 6 May 2014
Trausch Jeremiah J, Xu Zhenjiang, Edwards Andrea L, Reyes Francis E, Ross Phillip E, Knight Rob, Batey Robert T
Abstract excerpt
In bacteria, sulfur metabolism is regulated in part by seven known families of riboswitches that bind S-adenosyl-l-methionine (SAM). Direct binding of SAM to these mRNA regulatory elements governs a downstream secondary structural switch that communicates with the transcriptional and/or translational expression machinery. The most widely distributed SAM-binding riboswitches belong to the SAM clan, comprising...
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