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Hfq affects the length and the frequency of short oligo(A) tails at the 3' end of Escherichia coli rpsO mRNAs.
Nucleic acids research - 15 Jul 2003
Le Derout Jacques, Folichon Marc, Briani Federica, Dehò Gianni, Régnier Philippe, Hajnsdorf Eliane
Abstract excerpt
Polyadenylation plays an important role in RNA degradation in bacterial cells. In Escherichia coli, exoribonucleases, mostly RNase II and polynucleotide phosphorylase, antagonize the synthesis of poly(A) tails by poly(A) polymerase I (PAP I). In accordance with earlier observations showing that only a small fraction of bacterial RNA is polyadenylated, we demonstrate here that approximately 10% of rpsO mRNA...
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