A cell is a complex environment in which substances (metabolites) must maintain a correct state of equilibrium, which may vary depending on specific needs. Cells can maintain the proper concentrations ...
How does an organism know when it must produce a protein and in what amount? Clever control mechanisms are responsible for the regulation of protein biosynthesis. One such type of mechanism, ...
Riboswitches are RNA segments that switch genes on and off, either during DNA transcription or during protein translation, but little is known about the precise workings of this process. A new study ...
Guanine-sensing riboswitches are RNA genetic control elements that modulate gene expression in response to changing concentrations of guanine 1. They represent one of several classes of ...
The recently emerged field of bacterial riboswitches may be a good hunting ground for effective targets against bacterial infection, according to a report by Yale researchers in the journal Chemistry ...
Two recent reports on the structures of cobalamin riboswitches uncover amazing details on how a ubiquitous riboswitch class selectively grips a large and ancient coenzyme, revealing that some variants ...
In a recent study, researchers developed a low-cost RNA-based sensor that detects biomarker proteins. Researchers at Penn State University (PA, USA) have engineered an RNA-based sensor, a riboswitch, ...
As long-trusted antibiotics encounter increased resistance by the bacterial pathogens they were originally designed to kill, the need for novel anti-infective drug treatments is mounting. One young ...
This kind of complex signaling had long been thought to be the domain of just proteins. A team of researchers at The Scripps Research Institute has found that RNA riboswitches respond simultaneously ...
A cell is a complex environment in which substances (metabolites) must maintain a correct state of equilibrium, which may vary depending on specific needs. Cells can maintain the proper concentrations ...
New Haven, Conn. -- The recently emerged field of bacterial riboswitches may be a good hunting ground for effective targets against bacterial infection, according to a report by Yale researchers in ...