Paradoxical suppression of small RNA activity at high Hfq concentrations due to random-order binding

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 8502-8515

  Sagawa, Shiori ^a   Shin, Jung Eun ^a   Hussein, Razika ^a   Lim, Han N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN HFQ; RNA; SMALL RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL RNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; HFQ PROTEIN, E COLI; HOST FACTOR 1; PROTEIN BINDING; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING KINETICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC PARAMETERS; MICC GENE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MRNA SET POINT; NONHUMAN; OMPC GENE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RANDOM ORDER BINDING; RYHB GENE; SODB GENE; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE SILENCING; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84949008358     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv777     Document Type: Article

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