Acting antisense: Plasmid- and chromosome-encoded sRNAs from Gram-positive bacteria

Future Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 853-871

  Brantl, Sabine ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

antisense RNA; cis encoded sRNA; Gram positive bacteria; plasmid; small regulatory RNA; sRNA; trans encoded sRNA

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN HFQ; RIBONUCLEASE III; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING KINETICS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA REPLICATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSLATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

BASE PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; PLASMIDS; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA;

EID: 84864345937     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: 17460921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.12.59     Document Type: Review

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