Annotation and evolutionary relationships of a small regulatory RNA gene micF and its target ompF in Yersinia species

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-15

  Delihas, Nicholas ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; MESSENGER RNA; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN C; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN F; BACTERIAL RNA; PORIN; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE PROBE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; RNA GENE; RNA GENE MICF; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PESTIS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; YERSINIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; PORINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 2942739062     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-3-13     Document Type: Article

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