Polyphosphate kinase is a component of the Escherichia coli RNA degradosome

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 387-398

  Blum, Erwin ^a   Py, Beatrice ^a,b   Carpousis, Agamemnon J ^b   Higgins, Christopher F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; POLYPHOSPHATE; POLYPHOSPHATE KINASE; RIBONUCLEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA PROCESSING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030779484     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.5901947.x     Document Type: Article

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