VapCs of Mycobacterium tuberculosis cleave RNAs essential for translation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 20, 2016, Pages 9860-9871

  Winther, Kristoffer ^a,b   Tree, Jai J ^c   Tollervey, David ^d   Gerdes, Kenn ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; TRANSFER RNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; METHIONINE TRANSFER RNA; PROTEIN BINDING; VAPC PROTEIN, MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA TRANSLATION; VAPC GENE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR MODEL; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA GENE; RNA STABILITY; TUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; GENES, RRNA; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA STABILITY; RNA, TRANSFER, MET; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 85006259960     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw781     Document Type: Article

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