Antisense RNA-regulated programmed cell death

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue , 1997, Pages 1-31

  Gerdes, Kenn ^a   Gultyaev, Alexander P ^b   Franck, Thomas ^a   Pedersen, Kim ^a   Mikkelsen, Nikolaj D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cell killing; Hok; RNA folding pathway; RNA rearrangements; Sok

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031455172     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.31.1.1     Document Type: Review

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