Riboswitches and the role of noncoding RNAs in bacterial metabolic control

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 594-602

  Winkler, Wade C ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; BACTERIAL RNA; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; COBAMAMIDE; COCARBOXYLASE; FLAVINE MONONUCLEOTIDE; GLUCOSAMINE 6 PHOSPHATE; GLUCOSAMINE DERIVATIVE; GLYCINE; GUANINE; LYSINE; MESSENGER RNA; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; TRANS ACTING FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOCHEMISTRY; DATA ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC REGULATION; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA BINDING; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 27744519876     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2005.09.016     Document Type: Review

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