A small RNA controls expression of the chitinase chia in listeria monocytogenes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Nielsen, Jesper S ^a   Larsen, Marianne Halberg ^b   Lillebæk, Eva Maria Sternkopf ^a   Bergholz, Teresa M ^c   Christiansen, Mie H G ^a   Boor, Kathryn J ^c   Wiedmann, Martin ^c   Kallipolitis, Birgitte H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; RNA; SMALL RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA; CHITIN; CHITINASE CHIA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHIA GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LMO0302 GENE; NONHUMAN; RIBOSOME; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HYDROLYSIS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHITIN; CHITINASE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HYDROLYSIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

EID: 79955156794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019019     Document Type: Article

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