Global mapping of transcription start sites and promoter motifs in the symbiotic α-proteobacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti 1021

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Schlüter, Jan Philip ^a,b   Reinkensmeier, Jan ^c   Barnett, Melanie J ^d   Lang, Claus ^d   Krol, Elizaveta ^b   Giegerich, Robert ^c   Long, Sharon R ^d   Becker, Anke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisense RNA; mRNA; Promoter; RNAseq; Sigma factor; Sinorhizobium meliloti; sRNA; Transcription; Transcription start site

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MESSENGER RNA; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR RPOE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; REGULON; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENES, BACTERIAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SIGMA FACTOR; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

PROTEOBACTERIA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI 1021;

EID: 84874624264     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-156     Document Type: Article

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