The Escherichia coli threonyl-tRNA synthetase gene contains a split ribosomal binding site interrupted by a hairpin structure that is essential for autoregulation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1077-1090

  Sacerdot, Christine ^a   Caillet, Joel ^a   Graffe, Monique ^a   Eyermann, Flore ^b   Ehresmann, Bernard ^b   Ehresmann, Chantal ^b   Springer, Mathias ^a   Romby, Pascale ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INST DE BIOL MOLEC ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; THREONINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; STEREOSPECIFICITY; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; THREONINE-TRNA LIGASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0031841750     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00995.x     Document Type: Article

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