RNA-Seq-Based Analysis of the Physiologic Cold Shock-Induced Changes in Moraxella catarrhalis Gene Expression

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Spaniol, Violeta ^a   Wyder, Stefan ^a   Aebi, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; LACTOFERRIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHATE; TRANSFERRIN;

ACRAB GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; COLD SHOCK RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; IRON METABOLISM; M35 LIKE PORIN GENE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OMPA GENE; PHOSPHATE TRANSPORT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; COLD TEMPERATURE; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM; MORAXELLA (BRANHAMELLA) CATARRHALIS; MORAXELLACEAE INFECTIONS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; VIRULENCE;

MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS;

EID: 84879767554     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068298     Document Type: Article

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