High-level expression of pseudogenes in Mycobacterium leprae

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 259, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 208-214

  Suzuki, Koichi ^a   Nakata, Noboru ^a   Bang, Pham Dang ^a   Ishii, Norihisa ^a   Makino, Masahiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mycobacterium leprae; Pseudogene; RNA

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOGENE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COSMIDS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PSEUDOGENES;

MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE;

EID: 33744780178     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00276.x     Document Type: Article

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