Thiamine derivatives bind messenger RNAs directly to regulate bacterial gene expression

Nature

Volumn 419, Issue 6910, 2002, Pages 952-956

  Winkler, Wade ^a   Nahvi, Ali ^a   Breaker, Ronald R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMES; GENES; METABOLITES;

RIBOSOME BINDING SITE;

RNA;

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; RIBOZYME; THIAMINE; THIAMINE DERIVATIVE;

GENE; RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA BINDING;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; ALLOSTERIC SITE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE Y; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RIBOSOMES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THIAMINE; THIAMINE PYROPHOSPHATE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0037206833     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01145     Document Type: Article

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