Analysis of the mechanism of action of the antisense RNA that controls the replication of the repABC plasmid p42d

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 3268-3278

  Cervantes Rivera, Ramón ^a   Romero López, Cristina ^b   Berzal Herranz, Alfredo ^b   Cevallos, Miguel A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE PARASITOLOGÍA Y BIOMEDICINA LÓPEZ NEYRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CENTROMERE; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEGREGATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PARS GENE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPA GENE; REPB GENE; REPC GENE; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; RNA STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DNA REPLICATION; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERON; PLASMIDS; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; RNA, ANTISENSE;

RHIZOBIUM ETLI;

EID: 77954350933     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00118-10     Document Type: Article

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