In vivo and in vitro processing of the Bacillus subtilis transcript coding for glutamyl-tRNA synthetase, serine acetyltransferase, and cysteinyl- tRNA synthetase

RNA

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 281-289

  Pelchat, Martin ^a   Lapointe, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

CysE; CysS; Cysteine biosynthesis; gltX; RNA cleavage

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE TRANSFER RNA; CYSTEINYL TRANSFER RIBONUCLEIC ACID SYNTHETASE; GLUTAMATE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; RNA; SERINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CLEAVAGE;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUTAMATE-TRNA LIGASE; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SERINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; T7 PHAGE;

EID: 0033064681     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838299980858     Document Type: Article

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