Analysis of Escherichia coli 4.5S RNA binding affinity to Ffh and EF-G

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 271-277

  Suzuma, Satoru ^a   Hayashi, Kenji ^a   Nakamura, Kouji ^a   Yamane, Kunio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

4.5S RNA; Escherichia coli; Protein elongation factor; RNA binding protein; RNA protein interaction; Signal recognition particle RNA

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SECRETION; RNA BINDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HISTIDINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR G; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032706763     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00498-X     Document Type: Article

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