An atlas of Hfq-bound transcripts reveals 3′ UTRs as a genomic reservoir of regulatory small RNAs

EMBO Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 4005-4019

  Chao, Yanjie ^a   Papenfort, Kai ^a   Reinhardt, Richard ^b   Sharma, Cynthia M ^c   Vogel, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

30 UTR; ABC transporter; DapZ; GcvB; Hfq

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DAPB PROTEIN; DAPZ PROTEIN; HILD PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN HFQ; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA; SMALL RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, OVERLAPPING; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LIPOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 84867577054     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2012.229     Document Type: Article

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