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Escherichia coli Hfq binds A18 and DsrA domain II with similar 2:1 Hfq6/RNA stoichiometry using different surface sites.
Biochemistry - 18 Apr 2006
Sun Xueguang, Wartell Roger M
Abstract excerpt
Hfq is a RNA-binding protein in Escherichia coli that plays an essential role in post-transcriptional regulation of mRNAs by facilitating pairing of noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) to mRNA target sites. Recent work has provided evidence that E. coli Hfq has two distinct RNA-binding surfaces. In this study, a comparative sequence-structure analysis of hfq genes in bacterial genomes was employed to identify conserved...
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