Deciphering the regulatory codes in bacterial genomes

Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1052-1063

  Cho, Byung Kwan ^a   Palsson, Bernhard ^b   Zengler, Karsten ^b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Next generation sequencing; Regulome; Synthetic Biology; Systems Biology; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; REGULOME; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTOMES;

BACTERIOLOGY; GENES;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL RNA; DNA FRAGMENT; NUCLEOID ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACINETOBACTER BAYLYI; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

GENOME, BACTERIAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 80052632697     PISSN: 18606768     EISSN: 18607314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/biot.201000349     Document Type: Review

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