Small toxic proteins and the antisense RNAs that repress them

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 579-589

  Fozo, Elizabeth M ^a   Hemm, Matthew R ^a   Storz, Gisela ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; SMALL TOXIN PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA BINDING;

ANTITOXINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 57349189421     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.00025-08     Document Type: Review

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