The 5'-proximal hairpin loop of lbi RNA is a key structural element in repression of D-galactan II biosynthesis in Klebsiella pneumoniae serotype O1

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 697-709

  Warnecke, Jens M ^a,c   Nitschke, Martin ^a   Moolenaar, Catharina E C ^b   Rietschel, Ernst Th ^b   Hartmann, Roland K ^a   Mamat, Uwe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; GALACTAN; LEAD; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; GALACTANS; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEROTYPING; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0034019112     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01894.x     Document Type: Article

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