Small RNAs in the genus clostridium

mBio

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Chen, Yili ^a,b   Indurthi, Dinesh C ^a,b   Jones, Shawn W ^a,b,c   Papoutsakis, Eleftherios T ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b University of Delaware   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLOSTRIDIACEAE; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BEIJERINCKII; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CLOSTRIDIUM CELLULOLYTICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM KLUYVERI; CLOSTRIDIUM NOVYI; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM PHYTOFERMENTANS; CLOSTRIDIUM TETANI; CLOSTRIDIUM THERMOCELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

CLOSTRIDIA; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BEIJERINCKII; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CLOSTRIDIUM CELLULOLYTICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM KLUYVERI; CLOSTRIDIUM NOVYI; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM PHYTOFERMENTANS; CLOSTRIDIUM TETANI; CLOSTRIDIUM THERMOCELLUM;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 79955125027     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00340-10     Document Type: Article

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