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How do pathogens survive temperature variations? At a molecular level, one bacterial species seems to regulate gene expression in response to temperature through structural equilibria in corresponding RNA sequences. See Letter p.355

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Figure 1: Three states of a riboswitch.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion5 were published online on 10 July 2013.

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  1. Ronald Micura is at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and the Center for Molecular Biosciences, Leopold Franzens University, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.,

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Micura, R. A three-state balancing act. Nature 499, 289–290 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12410

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