 Riboswitch
"Riboswitch" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Part of a MESSENGER RNA molecule that undergoes a conformation change upon binding a specific metabolite or other small molecule thereby regulating the messenger RNA's transcription, post-transcriptional processing, transport, translation, or stability in response to varying levels of the metabolite or other small molecule.
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D058928
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D13.444.735.544.427 D13.444.735.790.878.942.500 G02.111.570.080.689.687.124 G05.360.080.689.687.124
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Riboswitch" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Riboswitch" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Riboswitch" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Blount KF, Megyola C, Plummer M, Osterman D, O'Connell T, Aristoff P, Quinn C, Chrusciel RA, Poel TJ, Schostarez HJ, Stewart CA, Walker DP, Wuts PG, Breaker RR. Novel riboswitch-binding flavin analog that protects mice against Clostridium difficile infection without inhibiting cecal flora. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2015 Sep; 59(9):5736-46.
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