The challenge of regulation in a minimal photoautotroph: Non-coding RNAs in Prochlorococcus

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Steglich, Claudia ^a   Futschik, Matthias E ^b   Lindell, Debbie ^c   Voss, Bjoern ^a   Chisholm, Sallie W ^d   Hess, Wolfgang R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SPACER DNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME ANALYSIS; HETEROZYGOSITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; LIGHT STRESS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOAUTOTROPH; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OPEN READING FRAME; PHOTOTROPHY;

CYANOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

DNA, INTERGENIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHOTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 50849096398     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000173     Document Type: Article

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