Table 1.

Summary of potentially applicable riboswitches

Ligand	Gene	Potential application	Reference
Lysine	lysC	Antibacterial drug target	Blount et al. 2007
Lysine	lysC	Riboselector	Yang et al. 2013
Glucosamine-6-phosphate	glmS	Antibacterial drug target	Lünse et al. 2014
Purines	guaA	Antibacterial drug target	Mulhbacher et al. 2010
Flavin mononucleotide	ribB	Antibacterial drug target	Pedrolli et al. 2012
Thiamine pyrophosphate	tenA	Antibacterial drug target	Sudarsan et al. 2005
Theophylline	-	Gene expression control	Seeliger et al. 2012
Theophylline	E1A	Virus gene expression and replication control	Ketzer et al. 2014
Theophylline	-	Gene expression in cell-like system	Martini and Mansy 2011
Theophylline	CheZ	Control of bacterial cell behavior	Topp and Gallivan 2007