Bacterial transcriptomics: What is beyond the RNA horiz-ome?

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 658-669

  Güell, Marc ^a,c   Yus, Eva ^b   Lluch Senar, Maria ^a   Serrano, Luis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; POLYRIBONUCLEOTIDE NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RNA POLYMERASE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; POLYADENYLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

BACTERIA; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OPERON; RNA, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 80051732583     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2620     Document Type: Review

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