Unexpected properties of sRNA promoters allow feedback control via regulation of a two-component system

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 20, 2016, Pages 9650-9666

  Brosse, Anaïs ^a   Korobeinikova, Anna ^a,c   Gottesman, Susan ^b   Guillier, Maude ^a  

^a EGM   (France)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; DNA FRAGMENT; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; PROTEIN BINDING; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OMPF GENE; OMPR GENE; OMRA GENE; OMRB GENE; OMRC GENE; OMRF GENE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULON; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATOR GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 85016121898     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw642     Document Type: Article

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