Regulation of bacterial gene expression by riboswitches

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue , 2005, Pages 487-517

  Winkler, Wade C ^a   Breaker, Ronald R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aptamer; Ribozyme; RNA switch; Transcription attenuation; Translation initiation

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; BACTERIAL RNA; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOZYME; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ALLOSTERISM; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSENSOR; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; RIBOSWITCH; RNA PROCESSING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 27144527479     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.59.030804.121336     Document Type: Review

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