Identification of differentially expressed small non-protein-coding RNAs in Staphylococcus aureus displaying both the normal and the small-colony variant phenotype

Journal of Molecular Medicine

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 565-575

  Abu Qatouseh, Luay F ^a   Chinni, Suresh V ^b   Seggewiß, Jochen ^a,b   Proctor, Richard A ^c   Brosius, Jürgen ^b   Rozhdestvensky, Timofey S ^b   Peters, Georg ^a   Eiff, Christof Von ^a,d   Becker, Karsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Wyeth Pharma GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Infectiology; Infection; RNA; Transcription

Indexed keywords

UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA LIBRARY; GROWTH CURVE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 77954563760     PISSN: 09462716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00109-010-0597-2     Document Type: Article

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