RNA degradation in Escherichia coli regulated by 3' adenylation and 5' phosphorylation.

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RNA degradation in Escherichia coli regulated by 3' adenylation and 5' phosphorylation.

Nature - 9 Mar 1995

Xu F, Cohen S N

Abstract excerpt

Although polyadenylation has commonly been regarded as a special feature of eukaryotic messenger RNA, there are many reports of polyA tails on bacterial RNA (for example, refs 3-8). In Escherichia coli, adenylation mediated by the pcnB gene greatly accelerates decay of RNA I, an antisense repress...

Topics

Adenine
Bacterial Proteins
Base Sequence
Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli Proteins
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Nucleic Acid Conformation
Phosphorylation
Poly A
Polynucleotide Adenylyltransferase
Polyribonucleotide Nucleotidyltransferase
RNA, Bacterial

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