Uses and pitfalls of microarrays for studying transcriptional regulation

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 114-119

  Rhodius, Virgil A ^a   LaRossa, Robert A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ACID; ACIVICIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; DIAMIDE; DNA; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; GLUCOSE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSFER RNA;

ALGORITHM; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; BACTERIUM; BINDING SITE; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLYCOLYSIS; HEAT SHOCK; HYBRIDIZATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; REGULON; REVIEW; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0038352119     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(03)00034-1     Document Type: Review

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