Experimental RNomics in Aquifex aeolicus: Identification of small non-coding RNAs and the putative 6S RNA homolog

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1949-1960

  Willkomm, Dagmar K ^a   Minnerup, Jens ^b,d   Hüttenhofer, Alexander ^c   Hartmann, Roland K ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; RIBONUCLEASE P; RNA 6S; RNA PRECURSOR; TMRNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

AQUIFEX AEOLICUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STEADY STATE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CONFORMATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AQUIFEX AEOLICUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBONUCLEASE P; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 17144365857     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki334     Document Type: Article

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