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RNA Sensors of Intracellular Metabolites

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Regulatory RNAs in Prokaryotes

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Abstract

Gene expression in bacteria can be controlled through many different possible regulatory strategies. The “expression” of a given gene can be described as a function of all of the molecular processes involved in the conversion of the gene’s information first into messenger RNA (mRNA) transcripts and then into the corresponding proteins. Therefore, one approach for defining the different possible types of bacterial regulatory strategies is to consider the various stages along the informationprocessing pathway from DNA to protein (Fig 1).

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Zacharia, V., Lafontaine, D., Winkler, W.C. (2012). RNA Sensors of Intracellular Metabolites. In: Regulatory RNAs in Prokaryotes. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0218-3_11

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