6S RNA regulation of relA alters ppGpp levels in early stationary phase

Microbiology

Volumn 156, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3791-3800

  Cavanagh, Amy T ^a   Chandrangsu, Pete ^a   Wassarman, Karen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PROTEIN PPGPP SYNTHASE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; RNA 6S; SYNTHETASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CELL GROWTH; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; REGULATOR GENE; RNA STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDES; LIGASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 78650047201     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.043992-0     Document Type: Article

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