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Legionnaire Disease
Investigators at Columbia University release new data on legionnaire disease
January 27th, 2009
According to recent research from the United States, "RNase R is a processive 3'-5' exoribonuclease with a high degree of conservation in prokaryotes. Although some bacteria possess additional hydrolytic 3'-5' exoribonucleases such as RNase II, RNase R was found to be the only predicted one in the facultative intracellular pathogen Legionella pneumophila." "This provided a unique opportunity to study the role of RNase R in the absence of an additional RNase with similar enzymatic activity. We investigated the role of RNase R in the biology of Legionella pneumophila under various conditions and performed gene expression profiling using microarrays. At optimal growth...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-01-27)
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