Regulating iron storage and metabolism with RNA: An overview of posttranscriptional controls of intracellular iron homeostasis

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 26-36

  Salvail, Hubert ^a   Massé, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; RNA; SIDEROPHORE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOMEOSTASIS; IRON METABOLISM; IRON STORAGE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SHIGELLA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; HOMEOSTASIS; IRON; RNA, BACTERIAL; SIDEROPHORES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SHIGELLA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84861442326     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.102     Document Type: Review

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