Genome-Wide Discovery of Small RNAs in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Miotto, Paolo ^a   Forti, Francesca ^b   Ambrosi, Alessandro ^c   Pellin, Danilo ^c   Veiga, Diogo F ^d   Balazsi, Gabor ^d   Gennaro, Maria L ^e   Di Serio, Clelia ^c   Ghisotti, Daniela ^b   Cirillo, Daniela M ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CIS ISOMER; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE TARGETING; MEMBRANE BINDING; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTON TRANSPORT; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, BACTERIAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TERMINATOR REGIONS, GENETIC;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84871315407     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051950     Document Type: Article

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