Chapter 12 Identifying and Characterizing Substrates of the RNase E/G Family of Enzymes

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 447, Issue , 2008, Pages 215-241

  Kime, Louise ^a   Jourdan, Stefanie S ^a   McDowall, Kenneth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDE; RIBONUCLEASE E; RIBONUCLEASE III; PRIMER DNA; RIBONUCLEASE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA ISOLATION; RNA METABOLISM; STEADY STATE; ARTICLE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HALF LIFE TIME; HYDROLYSIS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOSPHORYLATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; HALF-LIFE; HYDROLYSIS; PHOSPHORYLATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 58249087037     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(08)02212-X     Document Type: Review

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