Regulatory mechanisms employed by cis-encoded antisense RNAs

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 102-109

  Brantl, Sabine ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; PRIMER RNA; RIBONUCLEASE E; RIBONUCLEASE III;

BACTERIOPHAGE; BASE PAIRING; CIS ISOMER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANS ISOMER; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA STABILITY; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 34247099372     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2007.03.012     Document Type: Review

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