title: Ribonuclease E: Chopping Knife and Sculpting Tool.
abstract: In this issue of Molecular Cell, Chao et al. (2017) investigate the important role of the low-specificity endonuclease RNase E in shaping the transcriptome of a bacterial pathogen by functioning as both a degradative enzyme and an RNA maturase.
authors.affiliation: Kimmel Center for Biology and Medicine at the Skirball Institute and Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, 540 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA. Electronic address: joel.belasco@med.nyu.edu.
authors.forename: Joel G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Belasco
mesh_terms: D004722:Endoribonucleases / Q000235:genetics; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology*; D012329:RNA, Bacterial; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D012329:RNA, Bacterial; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D004722:Endoribonucleases; C022537:ribonuclease E
keywords: RNA decay; RNA degradation; RNA maturation; RNA processing; RNA stability; RNA-seq; RNase E; Salmonella; endoribonuclease; sRNA