The C-terminal half of RNase E, which organizes the Escherichia coli degradosome, participates in mRNA degradation but not rRNA processing in vivo

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 188-199

  Lopez, Pascal J ^a,b   Marchand, Isabelle ^a   Joyce, Susan A ^a,c   Dreyfus, Marc ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; POLYRIBONUCLEOTIDE NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 5S;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA PROCESSING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; POLYRIBONUCLEOTIDE NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA HELICASES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5S; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0033048415     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01465.x     Document Type: Article

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