Identification by cDNA cloning of abundant sRNAs in a human-avirulent Yersinia pestis strain grown under five different growth conditions

Future Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 535-547

  Qu, Yi ^a   Bi, Lijun ^b   Ji, Xiaolan ^a,c   Deng, Zhongliang ^d   Zhang, Hongtai ^b   Yan, Yanfeng ^a   Wang, Ming ^b   Li, Aqian ^b   Huang, Xinxiang ^c   Yang, Ruifu ^a   Han, Yanping ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

cDNA library construction; small RNA; Yersinia pestis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GROWTH CURVE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YERSINIA PESTIS;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PLAGUE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; YERSINIA PESTIS;

YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84858962249     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: 17460921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.12.13     Document Type: Article

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