A protein-dependent riboswitch controlling ptsGHI operon expression in Bacillus subtilis: RNA structure rather than sequence provides interaction specificity

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2853-2864

  Schilling, Oliver ^a,b   Langbein, Ines ^b   Müller, Michael ^b   Schmalisch, Matthias H ^a,b   Stülke, Jörg ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; GLCT PROTEIN, BACILLUS SUBTILIS; LICT PROTEIN, BACTERIA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE MISPAIRING; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULATOR GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SOIL MICROFLORA; STRUCTURAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERON; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TERMINATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 3042808647     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh611     Document Type: Article

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