Identification and expression of small non-coding RNA, L10-leader, in different growth phases of Streptococcus mutans

Nucleic Acid Therapeutics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 177-186

  Xia, Li ^a   Xia, Wei ^b   Li, Shaohua ^b   Li, Wuju ^b   Liu, Jiaojiao ^a   Ding, Hongmei ^b   Li, Jie ^b   Li, Hui ^b   Chen, Ying ^b   Su, Xueting ^b   Wang, Wei ^b   Sun, Li ^c   Wang, Chenglong ^a   Shao, Ningsheng ^b   Chu, Bingfeng ^a  

^a CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c First Out Patient Clinic   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; GLUCOSE; L10 LEADER; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; SUCROSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STRESS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, BACTERIAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 84862331245     PISSN: 21593337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/nat.2011.0339     Document Type: Article

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