The small RNA Aar in Acinetobacter baylyi: A putative regulator of amino acid metabolism

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 192, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 691-702

  Schilling, Dominik ^a   Findei, Sven ^b   Richter, Andreas S ^c   Taylor, Jennifer A ^d   Gerischer, Ulrike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

A. baylyi; Hfq; IntaRNA; RNAup; sRNAs

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID REGULATOR; MESSENGER RNA; SUCCINYL COENZYME A SYNTHETASE; SUCCINYL COENZYME A SYNTHETASE SUBUNIT ALPHA; TRANSFER RNA; TRYPTOPHAN TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; TRYPTOPHAN TRANSFER RNA SYNTHETASE II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAYLYI; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BINDING SITE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME ANALYSIS; GROWTH CURVE; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; UPREGULATION; CONFORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ACINETOBACTER; AMINO ACIDS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; UP-REGULATION;

ACINETOBACTER BAYLYI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 77956230835     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-010-0592-6     Document Type: Article

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