Base Pairing Interaction between 5′- and 3′-UTRs Controls icaR mRNA Translation in Staphylococcus aureus

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Ruiz de los Mozos, Igor ^a   Vergara Irigaray, Marta ^a   Segura, Victor ^b   Villanueva, Maite ^a   Bitarte, Nerea ^a   Saramago, Margarida ^c   Domingues, Susana ^c   Arraiano, Cecilia M ^c   Fechter, Pierre ^d   Romby, Pascale ^d   Valle, Jaione ^a   Solano, Cristina ^a   Lasa, Iñigo ^a   Toledo Arana, Alejandro ^a  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; MESSENGER RNA; POLY BETA 1,6 N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE POLYMER; POLYMER; PROTEIN ICAR; RIBONUCLEASE III; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URACIL;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BIOFILM; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HALF LIFE TIME; ICAR GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REPRESSOR GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE PAIRING; BIOFILMS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84892712664     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004001     Document Type: Article

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