Transcript analysis of nrrF, a Fur repressed sRNA of Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 166-170

  Ducey, Thomas F ^a,b   Jackson, Lydgia ^a,b   Orvis, Joshua ^a,b   Dyer, David W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Fluorescent primer extension; nrrF; Small RNA

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NRRF GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 60649096656     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: 10961208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2008.12.003     Document Type: Article

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