Genome-scale transcriptional profiling in Staphylococcus aureus : BBringing order out of chaos

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 295, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 204-210

  Nagarajan, Vijayaraj ^a   Smeltzer, Mark S ^b   Elasri, Mohamed O ^a  

^a The University of Southern Mississippi   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessory gene regulator; Staphylococcal accessory regulator; Staphylococcus aureus microarray meta database

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOFILM; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA MICROARRAY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 65649097302     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01595.x     Document Type: Article

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