Genome and transcriptome scale portrait of sigma factors in Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 424-432

  Sechi, Leonardo A ^a,b   Felis, Giovanna E ^a   Ahmed, Niyaz ^b,c   Paccagnini, Daniela ^a   Usai, Donatella ^a   Ortu, Silvia ^a   Molicotti, Paola ^a   Zanetti, Stefania ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b International Society of Genetic and Evolutionary Microbiology   (Italy)

^c CENTRE FOR DNA FINGERPRINTING AND DIAGNOSTICS   (India)

Author keywords

Caco2 cell infection; In silico analysis; Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis; Phylogenetic tree and expression of Sigma factor

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CELL STRAIN CACO 2; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

CACO-2 CELLS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MURAMIDASE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; OXAZOLES; PHYLOGENY; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIMATES;

EID: 34249650247     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2007.01.001     Document Type: Article

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