De novo sequencing and characterization of Picrorhiza kurrooa transcriptome at two temperatures showed major transcriptome adjustments

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Gahlan, Parul ^a   Singh, Heikham R ^a   Shankar, Ravi ^a   Sharma, Niharika ^a   Kumari, Anita ^a   Chawla, Vandna ^a   Ahuja, Paramvir S ^a   Kumar, Sanjay ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

2 C methyl d erythritol 4 phosphate; Gene expression; Mevalonate; Next generation sequencing; Phenylpropanoid; Picrorhiza kurrooa; Picrosides; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450; CYTOSINE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GUANINE; MESSENGER RNA; MEVALONIC ACID; PICROSIDE; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRINUCLEOTIDE; UDP GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CINNAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; IRIDOID; MICROSATELLITE DNA; PICROSIDE I; PICROSIDE II; PLANT RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PICRORHIZA KURROA; PLANT GENE; READ PER EXON KILOBASE PER MILLION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; TEMPERATURE; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; ENZYMOLOGY; EXON; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

PICRORHIZA KURROOA;

BASE COMPOSITION; CINNAMATES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; EXONS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; IRIDOID GLUCOSIDES; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PICRORHIZA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84859063337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-126     Document Type: Article

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