N. meningitidis 1681 is a member of the FinO family of RNA chaperones

RNA Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 812-819

  Chaulk, Steven ^a   Lu, Jun ^a   Tan, Kemin ^b   Arthur, David C ^a   Edwards, Ross A ^a   Frost, Laura S ^a   Joachimiak, Andrzej ^b   Glover, J N Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisense RNA; FinO; Plasmid conjugation; RNA chaperone; sRNA

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING;

NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 78751668486     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.7.6.13688     Document Type: Article

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