A regulatory RNA required for antitermination of biofilm and capsular polysaccharide operons in Bacillales

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 559-575

  Irnov, Irnov ^a   Winkler, Wade C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL RNA; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLALES; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOFILM; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CAPSULE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACILLALES; BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

BACILLALES; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERON; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TERMINATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77951565303     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07131.x     Document Type: Article

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