The bacterial Sm-like protein Hfq: A key player in RNA transactions

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1525-1533

  Valentin Hansen, Poul ^a   Eriksen, Maiken ^a   Udesen, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HFQ PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 1642565815     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2003.03935.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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