Identification and functional analysis of 'hypothetical' genes expressed in Haemophilus influenzae

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2353-2361

  Kolker, Eugene ^d   Makarova, Kira S ^a   Shabalina, Svetlana ^a   Picone, Alex F ^d   Purvine, Samuel ^d   Holzman, Ted ^d   Cherny, Tim ^d   Armbruster, David ^b   Munson Jr , Robert S ^b   Kolesov, Grigory ^c   Frishman, Dmitrij ^c   Galperin, Michael Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d BIATECH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOOLIGOSACCHARIDE; SIALIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOME; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 2342526611     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh555     Document Type: Article

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