Molecular mechanism for preQ1-II riboswitch function revealed by molecular dynamics

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FIGURE 2.
FIGURE 2.

PreQ1-II riboswitch binding pocket mass-weighted, heavy-atom RMSD to starting structure as function of time. The left column shows four ligand-bound simulations and the right column shows four apo simulations. The binding pocket is defined as nucleotides C30, U31, U32, U41, and A70.

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