Transformation: The next level of regulation

RNA Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1418-1423

  Knauer, Stefan H ^a   Rösch, Paul ^a   Artsimovitch, Irina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Metamorphic protein; Moonlighting protein; Multifunctionality; NusG; Ops DNA; Protein folding; Refolding; RfaH; Transcription factor; Transformer protein

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RFAH PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSFORMING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CODON; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPERON; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION;

EID: 84875136050     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.22724     Document Type: Article

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