Deep sequencing whole transcriptome exploration of the σE regulon in neisseria meningitidis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Huis in 't Veld, Robert Antonius ^a   Willemsen, Antonius Marcellinus ^a   van Kampen, Antonius Hubertus Cornelis ^a,b   Bradley, Edward John ^a   Baas, Frank ^a   Pannekoek, Yvonne ^a   van der Ende, Arie ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; NEISSERIAL SURFACE PROTEIN A; NITRITE REDUCTASE; PEPSY ASSOCIATED TM HELIX FAMILY PROTEIN; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIA GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; MSRA GENE; MSRB GENE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NSPA GENE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; REGULON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SIGMAE OPERON; SIGMAE REGULON; THROAT; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; WILD TYPE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC LOCI; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERON; REGULON; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, BACTERIAL; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 83455168918     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029002     Document Type: Article

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