Staphylococcus aureus RNAIII binds to two distant regions of coa mRNA to arrest translation and promote mRNA degradation

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Chevalier, Clément ^a   Boisset, Sandrine ^b,c   Romilly, Cédric ^a   Masquida, Benoit ^a   Fechter, Pierre ^a   Geissmann, Thomas ^b,c   Vandenesch, François ^b,c   Romby, Pascale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAGULASE; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEASE III; BACTERIAL RNA; RNAIII, STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; ENZYME REPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TARGETING; REPORTER GENE; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LACTOSE OPERON; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RIBOSOME; RNA STABILITY; START CODON; VIRULENCE;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BINDING SITES; COAGULASE; CODON, INITIATOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LAC OPERON; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; RNA STABILITY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 77950404950     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000809     Document Type: Article

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