High-Resolution Transcriptome Maps Reveal Strain-Specific Regulatory Features of Multiple Campylobacter jejuni Isolates

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Dugar, Gaurav ^a   Herbig, Alexander ^b   Förstner, Konrad U ^a   Heidrich, Nadja ^a   Reinhardt, Richard ^c   Nieselt, Kay ^b   Sharma, Cynthia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c Max Planck Genome Centre Cologne   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEASE III; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; EUKARYOTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GASTROENTERITIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84878482772     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003495     Document Type: Article

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