Nus transcription elongation factors and RNase III modulate small ribosome subunit biogenesis in Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 382-393

  Bubunenko, Mikhail ^a,b   Court, Donald L ^b   Al Refaii, Abdalla ^c   Saxena, Shivalika ^d   Korepanov, Alexey ^b   Friedman, David I ^e   Gottesman, Max E ^d   Alix, Jean Hervé ^c  

^a SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; PROTEIN NUS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA 16S; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA PRECURSOR; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING SITE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOGENESIS; COLD SENSITIVITY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; NUSA GENE; NUSB GENE; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RIBOSOME; RNA FOLDING; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSLATION; RRN GENE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTANT PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, SMALL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84872412857     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12105     Document Type: Article

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