A bacterial pathogen flips the riboswitch.
Riboswitches are RNA structures traditionally viewed as acting in cis to regulate downstream gene expression in bacteria. In a recent issue of Cell, Loh and colleagues report on the ability of a riboswitch to act in trans to modulate the expression of a critical bacterial virulence regulator.
Xayarath
Bobbi
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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612-7344, USA.
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Nancy E
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