The Essential Function of B. subtilis RNase III Is to Silence Foreign Toxin Genes

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Durand, Sylvain ^a   Gilet, Laetitia ^a   Condon, Ciarán ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEASE III;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PROPHAGE; RNA DEGRADATION; RNC GENE; SKIN PROPHAGE; SPBETA PROPHAGE; TOXIN GENE; TXPA GENE; YONT GENE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PROPHAGES; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA STABILITY; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84872010039     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003181     Document Type: Article

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