Posttranscriptional self-regulation by the lyme disease bacterium's bpur DNA/RNA-binding protein

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 195, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 4915-4923

  Jutras, Brandon L ^a,b   Jones, Grant S ^a   Verma, Ashutosh ^a,c   Brown, Nicholas A ^a   Antonicello, Alyssa D ^a   Chenail, Alicia M ^a   Stevenson, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Saint Kitts and Nevis)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORRELIAL PUR DOMAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LYME DISEASE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LYME DISEASE; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84886244250     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00819-13     Document Type: Article

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