Suppression of defective ribosome assembly in a rbfA deletion mutant by overexpression of Era, an essential GTPase in Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1005-1016

  Inoue, Koichi ^a   Alsina, Janivette ^a   Chen, Jingqiu ^a   Inouye, Masayori ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; PROTEIN ERA; RIBOSOME RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL GROWTH; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE RBFA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RIBOSOME; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; COLD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MUTATION; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0038016743     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03475.x     Document Type: Article

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