Identification of differentially expressed small non-coding RNAs in the legume endosymbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti by comparative genomics

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1080-1091

  Del Val, Coral ^a   Rivas, Elena ^b   Torres Quesada, Omar ^c   Toro, Nicolás ^c   Jiménez Zurdo, José I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; SPACER DNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSYMBIONT; EUKARYOTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOST; LEGUME; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, INTERGENIC; FABACEAE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 36148952518     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05978.x     Document Type: Article

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