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Nature Chemical Biology 2, 575 (1 November 2006) | doi:10.1038/nchembio1106-575

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Seeing a ribozyme cofactor Riboswitches are specialized domains found in the 5|[prime]| untranslated region of mRNA. In most riboswitches, binding of a metabolite causes a conformational change that regulates gene expression.