A variable homopolymeric G-repeat defines small RNA-mediated posttranscriptional regulation of a chemotaxis receptor in Helicobacter pylori

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Pernitzsch, Sandy R ^a   Tirier, Stephan M ^a   Beier, Dagmar ^a   Sharma, Cynthia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Homopolymeric repeat; Noncoding RNA

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

HOMOPOLYMERIC REPEAT; NONCODING RNA;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHEMOTAXIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 84893387968     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1315152111     Document Type: Article

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