A simple and efficient method to search for selected primary transcripts: Non-coding and antisense RNAs in the human pathogen Enterococcus faecalis

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Fouquier D'Hérouel, Aymeric ^a,b   Wessner, Franoise ^a   Halpern, David ^a   Ly Vu, Joseph ^a   Kennedy, Sean P ^a   Serror, Pascale ^a   Aurell, Erik ^b   Repoila, Francis ^a  

^a UMR1319 MICALIS   (France)

^b ALBANOVA UNIVERSITY CENTER   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; TXPA TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE PROBE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REF GENE; RELIABILITY; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENETIC LOCI; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PEPTIDES; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS;

EID: 79954609527     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr012     Document Type: Article

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