Two separate modules of the conserved regulatory RNA AbcR1 address multiple target mRNAs in and outside of the translation initiation region

RNA Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 624-640

  Overlöper, Aaron ^a   Kraus, Alexander ^a   Gurski, Rosemarie ^a   Wright, Patrick R ^b   Georg, Jens ^b   Hess, Wolfgang R ^b   Narberhaus, Franz ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ABC transporter; Agrobacterium; Alpha proteobacteria; Regulatory RNA; RNA RNA interaction; Small RNA

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER REGULATOR 1; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ABC TRANSPORTER; HOST FACTOR 1; PERIPLASMIC BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; NONHUMAN; PROTEOMICS; RNA BINDING; TRANSLATION INITIATION; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BASE PAIRING; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; REPRODUCIBILITY; RNA STABILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PERIPLASMIC BINDING PROTEINS; PROTEOMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84906342291     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.29145     Document Type: Article

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