Absence of RNase III alters the pathway by which RMAI, the antisense inhibitor of ColE1 replication, decays

Microbiology

Volumn 145, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 3089-3100

  Binnie, Uta ^a   Wong, Kenny ^a,b   McAteer, Sean ^a,c   Masters, Millicent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Inveresk Research International Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Plasmid replication; Ribonuclease III; RNA degradation; RNAI

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; POLYNUCLEOTIDE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; POLYRIBONUCLEOTIDE NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE III;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA DEGRADATION;

EID: 0032696225     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-145-11-3089     Document Type: Article

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