Posttranscriptional repression of the cel gene of the ColE7 operon by the RNA-binding protein CsrA of Escherichia coli

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3936-3951

  Yang, Tsung Yeh ^a   Sung, Yun Min ^a   Lei, Guang Sheng ^a   Romeo, Tony ^b   Chak, Kin Fu ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLICIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN CSRA; PROTEIN CSRB; PROTEIN CSRC; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL RNA; COLE7 PROTEIN, E COLI; CSRA PROTEIN, E COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BINDING SITE; CEL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN REGULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; LYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA TRANSLATION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CHEMISTRY; DNA REPAIR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; RNA STABILITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BINDING SITES; COLICINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIPOPROTEINS; MUTATION; OPERON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA STABILITY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS);

EID: 77955075326     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq177     Document Type: Article

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