Imprecise transcription termination within Escherichia coli greA leader gives rise to an array of short transcripts, GraL

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1636-1651

  Potrykus, Katarzyna ^a   Murphy, Helen ^a,c   Chen, Xiongfong ^b,d   Epstein, Jonathan A ^b   Cashel, Michael ^a  

^a Laboratory of Molecular Genetics   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^d SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN GRAL; PROTEIN GREA; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL RNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GREA PROTEIN, E COLI; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CHEMISTRY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHYSIOLOGY; REGULATOR GENE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, BACTERIAL; TERMINATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77950489765     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp1150     Document Type: Article

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