Identification of novel non-coding RNAs as potential antisense regulators in the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 469-481

  Tang, Thean Hock ^a,b   Polacek, Norbert ^c   Zywicki, Marek ^c,d   Huber, Harald ^e   Brugger, Kim ^f   Garrett, Roger ^f   Bachellerie, Jean Pierre ^g   Hüttenhofer, Alexander ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE INFORMM   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^g CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; TRANSFER RNA; TRANSPOSASE; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REPLICON; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; TRANSPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; GENE LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; TERMINATOR REGIONS (GENETICS);

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 13144269598     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04428.x     Document Type: Article

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