Legionella pneumophila 6S RNA optimizes intracellular multiplication

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 7533-7538

  Faucher, Sébastien P ^a   Friedlander, Gilgi ^b   Livny, Jonathan ^c,d   Margalit, Hanah ^b   Shuman, Howard A ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition assay; Legionella pneumophila genome; Microarray; sRNA; sRNA prediction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 6S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROES GENE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECA GENE; RNA ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RNA, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MAMMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 77952190441     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911764107     Document Type: Article

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