An integrated approach for finding overlooked genes in Shigella

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Peng, Junping ^a   Yang, Jian ^a   Jin, Qi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PATHOGEN BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA; BACTERIAL RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PLASMID; PREDICTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SHIGELLA; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 79953673891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018509     Document Type: Article

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