Experimental annotation of the human pathogen Candida albicans coding and noncoding transcribed regions using high-resolution tiling arrays

Genome Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Sellam, Adnane ^a,b   Hogues, Hervé ^a   Askew, Christopher ^a,b   Tebbji, Faiza ^a,b   van het Hoog, Marco ^a   Lavoie, Hugo ^c   Kumamoto, Carol A ^d   Whiteway, Malcolm ^a,b   Nantel, André ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; RNA POLYMERASE II; UNTRANSLATED RNA; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; SPACER DNA; DACTINOMYCIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CECUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA PURIFICATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; CHROMOSOME; DNA MICROARRAY; FUNGAL GENOME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PSEUDOGENE; TELOMERE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BIOFILM; CODING; EXON; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC REGULATION; HIGH RESOLUTION TILING ARRAY;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PSEUDOGENES; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 78649919213     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2010-11-7-r71     Document Type: Article

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