The Escherichia coli OxyS regulatory RNA represses fhlA translation by blocking ribosome binding

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 6069-6075

  Altuvia, Shoshy ^a,b   Zhang, Aixia ^a   Argaman, Liron ^b   Tiwari, Anita ^a   Storz, Gisela ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Antisense regulation; Oxidative stress; Oxys RNA; Ribosome binding; Translation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RIBOSOMES; RNA, BACTERIAL; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

EID: 0032531720     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.20.6069     Document Type: Article

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