New insights into the cellular organization of the RNA processing and degradation machinery of Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 780-782

  Taghbalout, Aziz ^a   Rothfield, Lawrence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PHOSPHOLIPID; RIBONUCLEASE E;

CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOSKELETON; DEGRADOSOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA PROCESSING;

CELL MEMBRANE; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; POLYRIBONUCLEOTIDE NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA HELICASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 54249144032     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06457.x     Document Type: Note

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