The Crc and Hfq proteins of Pseudomonas putida cooperate in catabolite repression and formation of ribonucleic acid complexes with specific target motifs

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 105-118

  Moreno, Renata ^a   Hernández Arranz, Sofía ^a   La Rosa, Ruggero ^a   Yuste, Luis ^a   Madhushani, Anjana ^b   Shingler, Victoria ^b   Rojo, Fernando ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; CRC PROTEIN, PSEUDOMONAS; HOST FACTOR 1; MESSENGER RNA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84921841177     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12499     Document Type: Article

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