RNA‐Schalter

Riboswitches Synthetic Biology intends to develop novel biological systems such as artificial metabolic pathways. With these, microorganisms are employed to make useful substances such as drugs, biofuels or other chemicals from cheap and renewable resources. Besides genes, regulators are essential parts of genetic circuits. Riboswitches represent a new class of such regulators. They can be developed with customized features using ligand binding RNAs.