Title

Cellular microbiology: c-di-AMP enters the riboswitch realm.

Authors

Kåhrström, Christina Tobin

Abstract

The article reports on the results of a study which determined that second messenger cyclic (c-di-AMP) binding affinity was more than six orders of magnitude than the adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and that it triggers transcription in vitro.

Subjects

ADENOSINE triphosphate; ADENOSINE monophosphate; TRANSCRIPTION factors

Publication

Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2013, Vol 11, Issue 12, p818

ISSN

1740-1526

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.1038/nrmicro3169