RNA antitoxins

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 117-124

  Gerdes, Kenn ^a   Wagner, E Gerhart H ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MAZE TOXIN; RNA; RNA ANTITOXIN; RNA ANTITOXIN A; SOS PROTEIN; SYME TOXIN; TISB TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOK SOK GENE; LDR GENE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYME GENE; SYMR GENE; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; RNA; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, BACTERIAL;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 34247148876     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2007.03.003     Document Type: Review

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