Sequencing illustrates the transcriptional response of Legionella pneumophila during infection and identifies seventy novel small non-coding RNAs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Weissenmayer, Barbara A ^a   Prendergast, James G D ^b   Lohan, Amanda J ^a   Loftus, Brendan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 6S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA; BACTERIAL RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; AMEBIC INFECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; UPREGULATION;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; NEGIBACTERIA;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 79952300775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017570     Document Type: Article

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