Transcriptional and post-transcriptional control of cold-shock genes

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 331, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 527-539

  Gualerzi, Claudio O ^a   Giuliodori, Anna Maria ^a   Pon, Cynthia L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bacterial gene expression; mRNA stability; Stress response; Translation initiation factors; Translational apparatus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COLD SHOCK PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR 3; MESSENGER RNA; TRANS ACTING FACTOR;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BACTERIAL GENE; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; COLD STRESS; DNA PACKAGING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; LOW TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTION; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA TRANSLATION; STOICHIOMETRY; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0043166304     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(03)00732-0     Document Type: Review

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