The iron/heme regulated genes of Haemophilus influenzae: Comparative transcriptional profiling as a tool to define the species core modulon

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Whitby, Paul W ^a   Seale, Thomas W ^a   VanWagoner, Timothy M ^a,b   Morton, Daniel J ^a   Stull, Terrence L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEME; IRON; TRACE ELEMENT; BACTERIAL RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOMEOSTASIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OPERON; REPRODUCIBILITY;

HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEME; IRON; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPERON; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 59449092260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-6     Document Type: Article

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