How to find small non-coding RNAs in bacteria

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 386, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1219-1238

  Vogel, Jörg ^a   Sharma, Cynthia Mira ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Gene expression regulation; Hfq; Non coding RNA; Post transcriptional regulation; Riboregulation; RNA processing; RNomics; Small RNA

Indexed keywords

POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; CLONING; DNA MICROARRAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; ORTHOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PURIFICATION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 29044443534     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2005.140     Document Type: Review

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