RNA-binding specificity of E. coli NusA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 4736-4742

  Prasch, Stefan ^a   Jurk, Marcel ^a   Washburn, Robert S ^b   Gottesman, Max E ^b   Wöhrl, Birgitta M ^a   Rösch, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN NUSA; PROTEIN BOXA; PROTEIN BOXB; PROTEIN NUTL; PROTEIN NUTR; SPACER DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA;

EID: 69049085671     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp452     Document Type: Article

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