A Genome-Wide Survey of Highly Expressed Non-Coding RNAs and Biological Validation of Selected Candidates in Agrobacterium tumefaciens

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Lee, Keunsub ^a   Huang, Xiaoqiu ^b   Yang, Chichun ^a   Lee, Danny ^c   Ho, Vincent ^c   Nobuta, Kan ^c   Fan, Jian Bing ^c   Wang, Kan ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Iowa State University   (United States)

^c ILLUMINA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETOSYRINGONE; BACTERIAL RNA; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INDUCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; RIBOSWITCH; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSLATION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; VIRA GENE; VIRB GENE; VIRC GENE; VIRD GENE; VIRE GENE;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; OPERON; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84881343363     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070720     Document Type: Article

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