Small RNAs for defence and regulation in archaea

Extremophiles

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 685-696

  Marchfelder, Anita ^a   Fischer, Susan ^a   Brendel, Jutta ^a   Stoll, Britta ^a   Maier, Lisa Katharina ^a   Jäger, Dominik ^b   Prasse, Daniela ^b   Plagens, André ^c   Schmitz, Ruth A ^b   Randau, Lennart ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Archaea; CRISPR; crRNA; Hfq; Lsm; sRNA

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARCHAEON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW;

ARCHAEA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84865822737     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-012-0469-5     Document Type: Review

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