Functional determinants of the quorum-sensing non-coding RNAs and their roles in target regulation

EMBO Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 2158-2171

  Shao, Yi ^a   Feng, Lihui ^a   Rutherford, Steven T ^a   Papenfort, Kai ^a   Bassler, Bonnie L ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

quorum sensing; regulation; sRNAs

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; GENE CONTROL; GENE NUMBER; GENE TARGETING; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; QUORUM SENSING; REGULON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOME; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSLATION INITIATION; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; QUORUM SENSING; REGULON; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; VIBRIO;

VIBRIO; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

EID: 84881478217     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2013.155     Document Type: Article

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