A giant family of short palindromic sequences in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 308, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 185-192

  Rocco, Francesco ^a   De Gregorio, Eliana ^a   Di Nocera, Pier Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Microbiological diagnostic; Palindromic DNA; Repeated DNA sequences; RNA hairpins; Stem loop structures; Whole genome analysis

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PALINDROMIC DNA; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHROMOSOME; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; INVERTED REPEAT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA STABILITY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA STABILITY; RNA, BACTERIAL; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

PROKARYOTA; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

EID: 77953489530     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.02010.x     Document Type: Article

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