6S RNA: a small RNA regulator of transcription

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 164-168

  Wassarman, Karen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLOENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 6S; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL SURVIVAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 34247163202     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2007.03.008     Document Type: Review

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