The Streptococcus mutans irvA Gene Encodes a trans-Acting Riboregulatory mRNA

Molecular Cell

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 179-190

  Liu, Nan ^a,d   Niu, Guoqing ^a,e   Xie, Zhoujie ^a   Chen, Zhiyun ^a   Itzek, Andreas ^a,f   Kreth, Jens ^a,b   Gillaspy, Allison ^a   Zeng, Lin ^c   Burne, Robert ^c   Qi, Fengxia ^a,b   Merritt, Justin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^f HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE J2; TRANS ACTING FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; DELETION MUTANT; DENTAL CARIES; FUNGAL GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CODE; IRVA GENE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RIBOSOME; RNA STABILITY; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; UNTRANSLATED REGION; WILD TYPE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84920382309     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2014.11.003     Document Type: Article

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