HrrF is the Fur-regulated small RNA in nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Santana, Estevan A ^a,b   Harrison, Alistair ^a,b   Zhang, Xinjun ^c   Baker, Beth D ^a,b   Kelly, Benjamin J ^a   White, Peter ^a   Liu, Yunlong ^c   Munson Jr , Robert S ^a,b  

^a NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL RNA; CHAPERONE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; HRRF RNA; IRON; MOLYBDIC ACID; PROTEIN HFQ; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FERRIC UPTAKE REGULATING PROTEINS, BACTERIAL; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE PRODUCT; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC STABILITY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HRRF GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; ORTHOLOGY; PASTEURELLACEAE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NASOPHARYNX;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; IRON; NASOPHARYNX; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84929279894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105644     Document Type: Article

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