RodZ regulates the post-transcriptional processing of the Shigella sonnei type III secretion system

EMBO Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 911-916

  Mitobe, Jiro ^a   Yanagihara, Itaru ^b   Ohnishi, Kiyouhisa ^b   Yamamoto, Shouji ^a   Ohnishi, Makoto ^a   Ishihama, Akira ^c   Watanabe, Haruo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH   (Japan)

^c HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

bacterial cytoskeleton; post transcriptional regulation; Shigella; type III secretion system

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS (ROD SHAPED BACTERIUM); BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL SHAPE; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA STABILITY; RODZ GENE; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA SONNEI; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STABILITY; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE DELETION; SHIGELLA SONNEI;

BACILLI (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA SONNEI;

EID: 80052299858     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2011.132     Document Type: Article

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