Regulation of the Escherichia coli secA gene is mediated by two distinct RNA structural conformations

Current Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 113-121

  Kiser, Kevin B ^a,b   Schmidt, Michael G ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; MAGNESIUM ION; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SEC A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA TRANSLATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MAGNESIUM; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA, MESSENGER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032958958     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849900413     Document Type: Article

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