Short RNA half-lives in the slow-growing marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus

Genome Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Steglich, Claudia ^a,b   Lindell, Debbie ^a,c   Futschik, Matthias ^d,e   Rector, Trent ^f,g   Steen, Robert ^f   Chisholm, Sallie W ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^e HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g PERKINELMER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENE FUNCTION; HALF LIFE TIME; MARINE BACTERIUM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONTENT; OPERON; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA STABILITY; SEA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; TIME;

PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HALF-LIFE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPERON; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RNA STABILITY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEAWATER; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77952311196     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2010-11-5-r54     Document Type: Article

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