RalR (a DNase) and RalA (a small RNA) form a type I toxin-antitoxin system in Escherichia coli

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 6448-6462

  Guo, Yunxue ^a   Quiroga, Cecilia ^b   Chen, Qin ^b   McAnulty, Michael J ^b   Benedik, Michael J ^c   Wood, Thomas K ^b,d   Wang, Xiaoxue ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; CHAPERONE; CHAPERONE HFQ; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; FOSFOMYCIN; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RALA RNA; RALR ANTITOXIN; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAC PROPHAGE; RALA GENE; RALR GENE; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA TRANSLATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; START CODON; STOP CODON; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TYPE 1 TOXIN ANTITOXIN SYSTEM; YDAC GENE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE PAIRING; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FOSFOMYCIN; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84903215390     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku279     Document Type: Article

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