Two discrete elements are required for the replication of a repABC plasmid: An antisense RNA and a stem-loop structure

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1431-1444

  Venkova Canova, Tatiana ^a   Soberón, Nora E ^a   Ramírez Romero, Miguel A ^a   Cevallos, Miguel A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; INITIATION FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN REPA; PROTEIN REPB; PROTEIN REPC; RHO FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY DNA SEQUENCE; REPLICON; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; RNA STRUCTURE; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERON; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM ETLI;

EID: 9644278330     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04366.x     Document Type: Article

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