Transcription termination within the iron transport-biosynthesis operon of Vibrio anguillarum requires an antisense RNA

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3479-3488

  Stork, Michiel ^a,b   Di Lorenzo, Manuela ^a   Welch, Timothy J ^a,c   Crosa, Jorge H ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR COOL AND COLD WATER AQUACULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEASE S1; SIDEROPHORE;

ANGR GENE; ANGT GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; FATA GENE; FATB GENE; FATC GENE; FATD GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IRON TRANSPORT; LISTONELLA ANGUILLARUM; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; ASPERGILLUS NUCLEASE S1; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DNA, INTERGENIC; IRON; LAC OPERON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERON; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SIDEROPHORES; TERMINATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIBRIO;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTONELLA ANGUILLARUM;

EID: 34247560793     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00619-06     Document Type: Article

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