Ribonuclease E provides substrates for ribonuclease P-dependent processing of a polycistronic mRNA

Genes and Development

Volumn 8, Issue 24, 1994, Pages 3021-3031

  Alifano, Pietro ^a   Rivellini, Flavia ^a   Piscitelli, Claudia ^a   Arraiano, Cecilia M ^a,b   Bruni, Carmelo B ^a   Carlomagno, M Stella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; his operon; mRNA processing; RNase E; RNase P; Salmonella typhimurium; translation

Indexed keywords

HISTIDINE; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEASE S1; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE E; RIBONUCLEASE P; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SYNTHESIS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0028568179     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.8.24.3021     Document Type: Article

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