Selectivity and self-assembly in the control of a bacterial toxin by an antitoxic noncoding RNA pseudoknot

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Short, Francesca L ^a   Pei, Xue Y ^a   Blower, Tim R ^a,b   Ong, Shue Li ^a   Fineran, Peter C ^a   Luisi, Ben F ^a   Salmond, George P C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Abortive infection; mRNA interferase; Plasmid stabilization; RNA inhibition; RNA protein complex

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; RIBONUCLEASE; RNA PRECURSOR; TOXI; TOXINBT; TOXINPA; TOXN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; INHIBITION KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PECTOBACTERIUM; PECTOBACTERIUM ATROSEPTICUM; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTITOXINS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PECTOBACTERIUM; PLASMIDS; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PECTOBACTERIUM ATROSEPTICUM;

EID: 84872541994     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1216039110     Document Type: Article

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