Post-transcriptional regulation of the str operon in Escherichia coli: Structural and mutational analysis of the target site for translational repressor S7

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 235, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 125-139

  Saito, Katsuyuki ^a   Nomura, Masayasu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mrna secondary structure; Ribosomal protein operon; Ribosomal protein S7; Translational control; Translational coupling

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0028011140     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(05)80021-X     Document Type: Article

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