Autoregulation of absB (RNase III) expression in Streptomyces coelicolor by endoribonucleolytic cleavage of absB operon transcripts

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 5526-5530

  Xu, Weijing ^a   Huang, Jianqiang ^a   Cohen, Stanley N ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE III;

ABSB GENE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA ANALYSIS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 48149111526     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00558-08     Document Type: Article

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