The excludon: A new concept in bacterial antisense RNA-mediated gene regulation

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 75-82

  Sesto, Nina ^a   Wurtzel, Omri ^b   Archambaud, Cristel ^a   Sorek, Rotem ^b   Cossart, Pascale ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; OPERON; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84872491794     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2934     Document Type: Article

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