Identification of small RNAs in Francisella tularensis

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Postic, Guillaume ^a,b   Frapy, Eric ^a,b   Dupuis, Marion ^a,b   Dubail, Iharilalao ^a,b   Livny, Jonathan ^c,d   Charbit, Alain ^a,b   Meibom, Karin L ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MICRORNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA; BACTERIAL RNA; BACTERIAL VACCINE; LIVE VACCINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TULAREMIA; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MACROPHAGE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSPORT;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; MURINAE; NEGIBACTERIA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSPORT; RNA, BACTERIAL; VACCINES, ATTENUATED;

EID: 78149264799     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-625     Document Type: Article

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