An RNA-dependent mechanism for transient expression of bacterial translocation filaments

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2018, Pages 3366-3381

  Wang, Dai ^a,b   McAteer, Sean P ^a   Wawszczyk, Agata B ^a,c   Russell, Clark D ^a   Tahoun, Amin ^a,d   Elmi, Alex ^c   Cockroft, Scott L ^c   Tollervey, David ^c   Granneman, Sander ^c   Tree, Jai J ^a,c,e   Gally, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d Kafrelsheikh University   (Egypt)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CSRA PROTEIN, E COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; ESPA PROTEIN, E COLI; HFQ PROTEIN, E COLI; HOST FACTOR 1; LEE PROTEIN, E COLI; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SEPL PROTEIN, E COLI;

BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATION; CYTOSKELETON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; RADIATION RESPONSE; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BINDING SITES; CYTOSKELETON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEMS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 85053855163     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gky096     Document Type: Article

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