Influence of RNA structural stability on the RNA chaperone activity of the Escherichia coli protein StpA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2280-2289

  Grossberger, Rupert ^a   Mayer, Oliver ^a   Waldsich, Christina ^a,b   Semrad, Katharina ^a   Urschitz, Sandra ^a   Schroeder, Renée ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; CHAPERONE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN STPA; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA; STPA PROTEIN, E COLI;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRON; LOW TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA SPLICING; RNA STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STIMULATION; WILD TYPE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TEMPERATURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA STABILITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 17644426039     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki515     Document Type: Article

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