Function, mechanism and regulation of bacterial ribonucleases

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 371-390

  Nicholson, Allen W ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial ribonuclease; Post transcriptional regulation; Ribonuclease III; RNA decay; RNA maturation

Indexed keywords

EXORIBONUCLEASE; NUCLEASE; PANCREATIC RIBONUCLEASE; POLYRIBONUCLEOTIDE NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE III; RIBONUCLEASE P;

BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; REVIEW; RNA METABOLISM;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYRIBONUCLEOTIDE NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIBONUCLEASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; T7 PHAGE;

EID: 0032932638     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6445(99)00013-3     Document Type: Review

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