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ReviewBiochimica et biophysica acta2014

The T box riboswitch: A novel regulatory RNA that utilizes tRNA as its ligand.

Tina M Henkin

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Review in Biochimica et biophysica acta, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Targeting Gene Transcription Prevents Antibiotic Resistance.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  5. The current riboswitch landscape inMicrobiology (Reading, England) · 2024
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  8. A Riboswitch-Driven Era of New Antibacterials.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  13. Strategies for Covalent Labeling of Long RNAs.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2021
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  18. Alternate RNA Structures.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2020
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  19. T-box RNA gets boxed.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Tina M HenkinDepartment of Microbiology and Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA. Electronic address: henkin.3@osu.edu.

Funding

REGULATION OF BACILLUS SUBTILIS TRNA SYNTHETASE GENESR01GM047823 · NIGMS · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI HENKIN, TINA M. · 1994 to 2019
$4.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM047823
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The T box riboswitch is a cis-acting regulatory RNA that controls expression of amino acid-related genes in response to the aminoacylation state of a specific tRNA. Multiple genes in the same organism can utilize this mechanism, with each gene responding independently to its cognate tRNA. The uncharged tRNA interacts directly with the regulatory RNA element, and this interaction promotes readthrough of an intrinsic transcriptional termination site upstream of the regulated coding sequence. A second class of T box elements uses a similar tRNA-dependent response to regulate translation initiation. This review will describe the current state of our knowledge about this regulatory system. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Riboswitches.

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Gene regulationRiboswitchRNA structureTranscription attenuationtRNA

Identifiers

PMID24816551
PMCPMC4958404

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