When all's zed and done: The structure and function of RNase Z in prokaryotes

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 278-286

  Redko, Yulia ^a   Li de laSierra Gallay, Inés ^a   Condon, Ciarán ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; MESSENGER RNA; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE Z; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL VIABILITY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MATURATION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; RNA CLEAVAGE; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, TRANSFER;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33947360611     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1622     Document Type: Review

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