Structural flexibility of RNA as molecular basis for Hfq chaperone function

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 8072-8084

  De Almeida Ribeiro, Euripedes ^a   Beich Frandsen, Mads ^a   Konarev, Petr V ^b   Shang, Weifeng ^b   Večerek, Branislav ^a,d   Kontaxis, Georg ^a   Hämmerle, Hermann ^a   Peterlik, Herwig ^a   Svergun, Dmitri I ^b   Bläsi, Udo ^a   Djinović Carugo, Kristina ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^d INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; HOST FACTOR Q; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS; SMALL REGULATORY RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOCHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC REGULATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RPOS GENE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; LIGHT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84870491800     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks510     Document Type: Article

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