The light side of the force

Elife. 2016 Feb 23:5:e14274. doi: 10.7554/eLife.14274.

Authors

Aakash Basu¹, Taekjip Ha²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States.
² Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States.

Abstract

A combination of two single-molecule techniques has revealed new tertiary interactions in the TPP riboswitch.

Keywords: TPP; biophysics; none; optical trap; riboswitch; single molecule biophysics; smFRET; structural biology.

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MeSH terms

Light*
Nucleic Acid Conformation
Riboswitch*

Substances

Riboswitch