NusA-dependent transcription termination prevents misregulation of global gene expression

Nature Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Mondal, Smarajit ^a,b   Yakhnin, Alexander V ^a,b   Sebastian, Aswathy ^a   Albert, Istvan ^a   Babitzke, Paul ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NUSA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL FUNCTION; DNA METABOLISM; DNA REPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; BACTERIAL GENE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84974710445     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20585276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2015.7     Document Type: Article

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