The small RNA regulators of Escherichia coli: Roles and mechanisms

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2004, Pages 303-328

  Gottesman, Susan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

DsrA; Hfq; OxyS; RyhB; Spot 42

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; CELL PROTEIN; CHAPERONE; IRON DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN DSRA; PROTEIN FHLA; PROTEIN HFQ; PROTEIN RPRA; PROTEIN RYHB; PROTEIN SPOT42; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS; SMALL NON CODING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DOWN REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN TARGETING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULON; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA BINDING; RNA GENE; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 4344682527     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.58.030603.123841     Document Type: Review

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