Effect of the pufQ-pufB intercistronic region on puf mRNA stability in Rhodobacter capsulatus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1165-1178

  Heck, Claudia ^a   Rothfuchs, Rüdiger ^a   Jäger, Andreas ^a   Rauhut, Reinhard ^a   Klug, Gabriele ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHOTOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0029946715     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02637.x     Document Type: Article

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