Programmed cell death by hok/sok of plasmid R1: Coupled nucleotide covariations reveal a phylogenetically conserved folding pathway in the hok family of mRNAs

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 273, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 26-37

  Gultyaev, Alexander P ^a   Franch, Thomas ^b   Gerdes, Kenn ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Covariations; hok; Post segregational killing; RNA folding pathway; RNA rearrangements

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ALGORITHM; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL DEATH; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R PLASMID; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

EID: 0031576339     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1295     Document Type: Article

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