The transcriptional landscape of Chlamydia pneumoniae

Genome Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Albrecht, Marco ^a   Sharma, Cynthia M ^a   Dittrich, Marcus T ^a   Müller, Tobias ^a   Reinhardt, Richard ^b   Vogel, Jörg ^a   Rudel, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC MANIPULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 80053649020     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2011-12-10-r98     Document Type: Article

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