The regulator protein PyrR of Bacillus subtilis specifically interacts in vivo with three untranslated regions within pyr mRNA of pyrimidine biosynthesis

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 693-700

  Hobl, Birgit ^a   Mack, Matthias ^a  

^a MANNHEIM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BL1; PROTEIN BL2; PROTEIN BL3; PROTEIN PYRR; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PYRIMIDINE SYNTHESIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGULATOR GENE; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PENTOSYLTRANSFERASES; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PYRIMIDINES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33947417261     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2006/003772-0     Document Type: Article

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