Genome-wide profiling of Hfq-binding RNAs uncovers extensive post-transcriptional rewiring of major stress response and symbiotic regulons in Sinorhizobium meliloti

RNA Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 563-579

  Torres Quesada, Omar ^a   Reinkensmeier, Jan ^b   Schluẗer, Jan Philip ^c   Robledo, Marta ^c   Peregrina, Alexandra ^a   Giegerich, Robert ^b   Toro, Nicolás ^a   Becker, Anke ^c   Jiménez Zurdo, José I ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nitrogen fixation; Riboregulation; RNA binding protein; SRNA; proteobacteria

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; EPITOPE; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA; BACTERIAL RNA; HOST FACTOR 1; PROTEIN BINDING; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOME; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VIVO STUDY; LEGUME; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUORUM SENSING; RIBOSOME; RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; STRESS; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RNA PROCESSING;

BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84905448071     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.28239     Document Type: Article

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