PreQ1-III riboswitches are a class of riboswitches that bind pre-queuosine1 (PreQ1), a precursor to the modified nucleoside queuosine.
PreQ1-III riboswitches are the third class of riboswitches to be discovered that sense this ligand, and are structurally distinct from preQ1-I and preQ1-II riboswitches.
Most sequenced examples of preQ1-III riboswitches are obtained from uncultivated metagenome samples, but the few examples in cultivated organisms are present in strains that are known to or suspected to be "Faecalibacterium prausnitzii", a species of Gram-positive Clostridia.
Known examples of preQ1-III riboswitches are found upstream of "queT" genes, which are expected to encode transporters of a queuosine derivative. The other two known classes of preQ1 riboswitches are also commonly found upstream of "queT" genes.
The atomic-resolution structure of a preQ1-III riboswitch has been solved by X-ray crystallography.
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