Insights into anti-termination regulation of the hut operon in Bacillus subtilis: Importance of the dual RNA-binding surfaces of HutP

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3463-3473

  Gopinath, Subash C B ^a   Balasundaresan, Dhakshnamoorthy ^a   Kumarevel, Thirumananseri ^b   Misono, Tomoko S ^a   Mizuno, Hiroshi ^a   Kumar, Penmetcha K R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b Harima Institute ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; HISTIDINE; HISTIDINE UTILIZING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; ANTITERMINATOR PROTEINS, BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION; GC RICH SEQUENCE; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HISTIDINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERON; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TERMINATOR REGIONS (GENETICS);

EID: 45549107075     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn199     Document Type: Article

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