ProQ is an RNA chaperone that controls ProP levels in escherichia coli

Biochemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 3095-3106

  G Chaulk, Steven ^a   Smith Frieday, Michelle N ^b   Arthur, David C ^a   Culham, Doreen E ^b   Edwards, Ross A ^a   Soo, Patrick ^b   Frost, Laura S ^a   Keates, Robert A B ^b   Glover, J N Mark ^a   Wood, Janet M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR LEVELS; DUPLEXING; E. COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI CELLS; GROWTH PHASE; N-AND C-TERMINAL DOMAINS; OSMOLALITY; OSMOLYTES; RNA-BINDING DOMAINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; SMALL RNA; STATIONARY PHASE; THERMOTOLERANCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHAPERONE; RNA; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHROMOSOME; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPERIMENT; HEAT TOLERANCE; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; OSMOLALITY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA BINDING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENETIC LOCI; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; SYMPORTERS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79953902512     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi101683a     Document Type: Article

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