Importance and key events of prokaryotic RNA decay: The ultimate fate of an RNA molecule

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 818-836

  Silva, Inês Jesus ^a   Saramago, Margarida ^a   Dressaire, Clémentine ^a   Domingues, Susana ^a   Viegas, Sandra Cristina ^a   Arraiano, Cecília Maria ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; CHAPERONE; ENDONUCLEASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN HFQ; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE E; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; EXONUCLEASE; HOST FACTOR 1; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; QUALITY CONTROL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA METABOLISM; RNA STABILITY; RNA SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

ENDONUCLEASES; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXONUCLEASES; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POLYADENYLATION; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA STABILITY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84857728009     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.94     Document Type: Review

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