The small RNA GcvB regulates sstT mRNA expression in Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 238-248

  Pulvermacher, Sarah C ^a   Stauffer, Lorraine T ^a   Stauffer, George V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; SSTT PROTEIN, E COLI; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GCVB GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; SSTT GENE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LURIA;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, BASIC; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, NEUTRAL; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPERON; PLASMIDS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 58149495971     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00915-08     Document Type: Article

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