RNA degradation and the regulation of antibiotic synthesis in Streptomyces

Future Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 419-429

  Jones, George H ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic; Decay; Regulation; Ribonuclease; RNA; Streptomyces

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AVERMECTIN; DACTINOMYCIN; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDE; POLYPHOSPHATE; POLYPHOSPHATE KINASE; POLYRIBONUCLEOTIDE NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIBONUCLEASE E; RIBONUCLEASE G; RIBONUCLEASE III; RIBONUCLEASE J; RIBONUCLEASE P; RIBONUCLEASE PH; RIBONUCLEASE R; RIBONUCLEASE Z; RIBOSOME RNA; STREPTOMYCIN; TACROLIMUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIDARABINE; VIRGINIAMYCIN;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CATALYSIS; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HERBICIDAL ACTIVITY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES ANTIBIOTICUS; STREPTOMYCES AVERMITILIS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; STREPTOMYCES GRISEUS; STREPTOMYCES HYGROSCOPICUS; STREPTOMYCES NODOSUS; STREPTOMYCES PARVULUS; STREPTOMYCES TSUKUBAENSIS; STREPTOMYCES VIRGINIAE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA STABILITY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; STREPTOMYCINEAE;

EID: 77949376180     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.10.14     Document Type: Review

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