Study of E. coli Hfq's RNA annealing acceleration and duplex destabilization activities using substrates with different GC-contents

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 487-497

  Doetsch, Martina ^a   Stampfl, Sabine ^a,c   Fürtig, Boris ^a,b   Beich Frandsen, Mads ^a   Saxena, Krishna ^b   Lybecker, Meghan ^a   Schroeder, Renée ^a  

^a MAX F PERUTZ LABORATORIES   (Austria)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Vis Vitalis GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; CHAPERONE; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; PROTEIN HFQ; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANNEALING ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; AU RICH ELEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DUPLEX DESTABILIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA FOLDING; RNA STABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

BASE COMPOSITION; CYTOSINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GUANINE; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; PEPTIDES; RNA; RNA FOLDING; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; TAT GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84871788963     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks942     Document Type: Article

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