A high resolution map of a cyanobacterial transcriptome

Genome Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Vijayan, Vikram ^a,b   Jain, Isha H ^b   O'Shea, Erin K ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNTRANSLATED RNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; MESSENGER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; GENE MAPPING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; RNA POLYMERASE CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION SEQUENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; TILING EXPRESSION MICROARRAY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS PCC 7942;

CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPERON; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 80955173627     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2011-12-5-r47     Document Type: Article

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