Discovery and biological characterization of geranylated RNA in bacteria

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 913-919

  Dumelin, Christoph E ^a,b   Chen, Yiyun ^a,b   Leconte, Aaron M ^a,b   Chen, Y Grace ^a,b   Liu, David R ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; NITROGEN 15; NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA; SULFUR; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOTOPE LABELING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SELU GENE;

ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 84867673706     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.1070     Document Type: Article

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