Escherichia coli cell division inhibitor DicF-RNA of the dicB operon. Evidence for its generation in vivo by transcription termination and by RNase III and RNase E-dependent processing.

Abstract excerpt

We have established that the long non-coding intercistronic region of the dicB operon of Escherichia coli expresses a trans-acting division inhibitor specified by a region dicF, at most 65 nucleotides-long. The present study deals with the processing of dicBF operon mRNA in vivo, and identifies the dicF gene product as a 53 nucleotide RNA species. A sequence at the end of DicF resembles, and behaves as, a...

Topics

• Base Sequence
• Cell Division
• Endoribonucleases
• Escherichia coli
• Escherichia coli Proteins
• Introns
• Molecular Sequence Data
• Mutation
• Nucleic Acid Conformation
• Operon
• RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional