Small RNAs in Rickettsia: Are they functional?

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 331-334

  Davids, Wagied ^a   Amiri, Haleh ^a   Andersson, Siv G E ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RNA;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; PROKARYOTA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIALES; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0036641069     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(02)02685-9     Document Type: Review

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