New connections in the prokaryotic toxin-antitoxin network: relationship with the eukaryotic nonsense-mediated RNA decay system

Genome Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Anantharaman, Vivek ^a   Aravind, L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Additional Data File; Gene Neighborhood; ParE Family; Polar Residue; Upstream Gene

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE IV; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MOLECULAR MOTOR; PILT PROTEIN, BACTERIA; RELE PROTEIN, E COLI; TOXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROKARYOTIC CELL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOP CODON;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CODON, NONSENSE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE IV; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 1542472730     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2003-4-12-r81     Document Type: Article

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