A new role for RNase II in mRNA decay: Striking differences between RNase II mutants and similarities with a strain deficient in RNase E

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 315-324

  Cruz, Ana Alexandra ^a   Marujo, Paulo Emanuel ^a   Newbury, Sarah Faith ^b   Arraiano, Cecília Maria ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cytochrome c3; Desulfovibrio; Escherichia coli; polynucleotide phosphorylase; ribonuclease; RNA degradation

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C3; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESULFOVIBRIO; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA DEGRADATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT;

ANTIBIOTICS, ANTITUBERCULAR; ASPERGILLUS NUCLEASE S1; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; DESULFOVIBRIO VULGARIS; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXORIBONUCLEASES; MUTATION; POLYRIBONUCLEOTIDE NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIFAMPIN; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOVIBRIO; DESULFOVIBRIO VULGARIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030589559     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(96)00418-1     Document Type: Article

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