CsrA activates flhDC expression by protecting flhDC mRNA from RNase E-mediated cleavage

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 851-866

  Yakhnin, Alexander V ^a   Baker, Carol S ^a   Vakulskas, Christopher A ^b   Yakhnin, Helen ^a   Berezin, Igor ^a   Romeo, Tony ^b   Babitzke, Paul ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN CSRA; RIBONUCLEASE E; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; FLHDC GENE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GGA MOTIF; HALF LIFE TIME; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LACZ GENE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA PROTECTION; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84873442308     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12136     Document Type: Article

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