Detection of RNA expression from pseudogenes and non-coding genomic regions of Mycobacterium leprae

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 183-187

  Nakamura, Kazuaki ^a   Akama, Takeshi ^a   Bang, Pham Dang ^a   Sekimura, Shin ^a   Tanigawa, Kazunari ^a   Wu, Huhehasi ^a   Kawashima, Akira ^a   Hayashi, Moyuru ^a   Suzuki, Koichi ^a   Ishii, Norihisa ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mycobacterium leprae; Noncoding DNA; Pseudogene; Transcript

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOT PAD; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; LEPROMATOUS LEPROSY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SKIN; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LEPROSY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; PSEUDOGENES; RATS; RATS, NUDE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; RATTUS;

EID: 68149124512     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: 10961208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2009.06.006     Document Type: Article

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