Genetic uncoupling of the dsRNA-binding and RNA cleavage activities of the Escherichia coil endoribonuclease RNAse III - The effect of dsRNA binding on gene expression

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 629-640

  Dasgupta, S ^a,c   Fernandez, L ^a   Kameyama, L ^a,e   Inada, T ^d   Nakamura, Y ^b   Pappas, A ^a   Court, D L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MUTANT PROTEIN; POLYINOSINIC POLYCYTIDYLIC ACID; RIBONUCLEASE III;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA PROCESSING;

ALLELES; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED;

EID: 0031980568     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00828.x     Document Type: Article

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