(p)ppGpp inhibits polynucleotide phosphorylase from Streptomyces but not from Escherichia coli and increases the stability of bulk mRNA in Streptomyces coelicolor

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 4275-4280

  Gatewood, Marcha L ^a   Jones, George H ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; POLYRIBONUCLEOTIDE NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; GUANOSINE 3' DIPHOSPHATE 5' DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE 3' DIPHOSPHATE 5' TRIPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; STREPTOMYCES ANTIBIOTICUS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; DIMERIZATION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; RNA STABILITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES ANTIBIOTICUS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GUANOSINE PENTAPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; POLYRIBONUCLEOTIDE NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 77956533718     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00367-10     Document Type: Article

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