The architecture and ppGpp-dependent expression of the primary transcriptome of Salmonella Typhimurium during invasion gene expression

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Ramachandran, Vinoy K ^a,b   Shearer, Neil ^a,b   Jacob, Jobin J ^a,b   Sharma, Cynthia M ^b   Thompson, Arthur ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; GUANOSINE 3' DIPHOSPHATE 5' DIPHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; SIGMA FACTOR; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; BACTERIAL RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SALMONELLOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84855798152     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-25     Document Type: Article

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