The critical role of RNA processing and degradation in the control of gene expression

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 883-923

  Arraiano, Cecília M ^a   Andrade, José M ^a   Domingues, Susana ^a   Guinote, Inês B ^a   Malecki, Michal ^a   Matos, Rute G ^a   Moreira, Ricardo N ^a   Pobre, Vânia ^a   Reis, Filipa P ^a   Saramago, Margarida ^a   Silva, Inês J ^a   Viegas, Sandra C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

post transcriptional control of gene expression; RNA; RNases

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; ENDONUCLEASE; ENOLASE; EXONUCLEASE; POLYRIBONUCLEOTIDE NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE E; RIBONUCLEASE H; RIBONUCLEASE III; RIBONUCLEASE P; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; RNA HELICASE; TRANSFER RNA;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; COMPLEX FORMATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE;

BACTERIA; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; POLYRIBONUCLEOTIDE NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA HELICASES; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA STABILITY; RNA, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 77955149193     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2010.00242.x     Document Type: Review

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