Over the past 30 years, there has been a widespread emergence of resistance to antibiotics in pathogenic bacteria. This resistance is now a serious threat to global public health and could ...

The central dogma of molecular biology suggests that the primary role of RNA is to convert the information stored in DNA into proteins. In reality, there is much more to the RNA story. However, in ...

Overview of RNA repair – There is an emerging appreciation of the existence of “RNA repair” pathways that rely on RNA ligases to maintain or manipulate RNA structure in response to purposeful RNA ...

Finally, gp71 crosses the inner membrane and refolds into a large RNA polymerase motor in the bacterial cytoplasm that pulls the phage DNA through the hollow gp73 and gp72 channels and into the ...