Strand-specific RNA-seq reveals ordered patterns of sense and antisense transcription in Bacillus anthracis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Passalacqua, Karla D ^a,c   Varadarajan, Anjana ^a   Weist, Charlotte ^a   Ondov, Brian D ^a,b   Byrd, Benjamin ^a   Read, Timothy D ^c   Bergman, Nicholas H ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SINGLE STRANDED RNA;

ANTISENSE TRANSCRIPTION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SENSE TRANSCRIPTION;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RNA; RNA, ANTISENSE;

EID: 84865189152     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043350     Document Type: Article

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