A tertiary structural element in S box leader RNAs is required for S-adenosylmethionine-directed transcription termination

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1008-1021

  McDaniel, Brooke A ^a   Grundy, Frank J ^a   Henkin, Tina M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, BACTERIAL; S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 23744510923     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04740.x     Document Type: Article

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