The HicAB cassette, a putative novel, RNA-targeting toxin-antitoxin system in archaea and bacteria

Bioinformatics

Volumn 22, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 2581-2584

  Makarova, Kira S ^a   Grishin, Nick V ^b   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEIN HICA; PROTEIN HICB; RIBONUCLEASE H; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA HELIX; GENE CASSETTE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA BINDING; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA METABOLISM;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33750420023     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl418     Document Type: Article

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