Riboswitches: still a lot of undiscovered country
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, UCB 596, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0596, USA
- Corresponding author: robert.batey{at}colorado.edu
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In this era of electronic publishing there are not a lot of compelling reasons to keep one's personal library filled with shelves of dusty print journals. Over the past few years, my office and laboratory have been depopulated of most of these relics with the exception of a few issues of special significance for various reasons: an issue of Nature with the first hammerhead structure, issues of Science describing structures of the P4-P6 domain from a group I intron and of the 50S ribosomal subunit and, of course, some issues containing papers of my own. But, amongst the rump of this once substantial hoard are issues 2 and 5 of volume 1 of RNA. Why did these survive? Unlike most of the others, they have dog-eared pages, highlighted references, and post-its with comments about a technique I needed to look into or a result relevant to my research …
