Transcriptional Analysis of Temporal Gene Expression in Germinating Clostridium difficile 630 Endospores

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Dembek, Marcin ^a   Stabler, Richard A ^b   Witney, Adam A ^c   Wren, Brendan W ^b   Fairweather, Neil F ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOSPORE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOGENESIS; CHEMOTAXIS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA EXTRACTION; SPORE GERMINATION; SPOROGENESIS; UPREGULATION;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RNA, BACTERIAL; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84877765660     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064011     Document Type: Article

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