Staphylococcus aureus MazF specifically cleaves a pentad sequence, UACAU, which is unusually abundant in the mRNA for pathogenic adhesive factor SraP

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3248-3255

  Zhu, Ling ^a   Inoue, Koichi ^a   Yoshizumi, Satoshi ^a   Kobayashi, Hiroshi ^a   Zhang, Yonglong ^a   Ouyang, Ming ^b   Kato, Fuminori ^c   Sugai, Motoyuki ^c   Inouye, Masayori ^a,d  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b University of Louisville   (United States)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Department of Biochemistry ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE AGENT; ADHESIVE FACTOR SRAP; CHAPERONE; CHAPERONE PROTEIN CSPA; ENDORIBONUCLEASE MAZF; MESSENGER RNA; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A; RIBONUCLEASE; RNA; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS RNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ADHESION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION; MS2 VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PENTAD SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA PHAGE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA STABILITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 65549106453     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01815-08     Document Type: Article

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