Analysis of the regulated transcriptome of neisseria meningitidis in human blood using a tiling array

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 6217-6232

  Del Tordello, Elena ^a   Bottini, Silvia ^a   Muzzi, Alessandro ^a   Serruto, Davide ^a  

^a NOVARTIS VACCINES AND DIAGNOSTICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOINFORMATICS; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; TILING ARRAY; UPREGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 84869135401     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01055-12     Document Type: Article

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