Global analysis of transcription kinetics during competence development in Streptococcus pneumoniae using high density DNA arrays

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1279-1292

  Rimini, Rebecca ^a   Jansson, Birger ^a   Feger, Georg ^b,d   Roberts, Tracy C ^c   De Francesco, Massimo ^b,d   Gozzi, Alessandro ^a   Faggioni, Federico ^a   Domenici, Enrico ^a   Wallace, Donald M ^c   Frandsen, Niels ^a   Polissi, Alessandra ^a  

^a GSK   (Italy)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^d SERONO PHARMACEUTICAL RES INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; KINETICS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0033922832     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01931.x     Document Type: Article

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