Quantifying the sequence-function relation in gene silencing by bacterial small RNAs

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 30, 2011, Pages 12473-12478

  Hao, Yue ^a   Zhang, Zhongge J ^c   Erickson, David W ^c   Huang, Min ^a   Huang, Yingwu ^d   Li, Junbai ^b   Hwa, Terence ^c   Shi, Hualin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; Noncoding RNA; Posttranscriptional control; Quantitative biology; RNA interaction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; CHAPERONE; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; SMALL RNA; SMALL RNA HFQ; SMALL RNA RYHB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; ENERGY METABOLISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; GENE SILENCING; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79961098409     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1100432108     Document Type: Article

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