Iron deprivation in synechocystis: Inference of pathways, non-coding RNAs, and regulatory elements from comprehensive expression profiling

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1475-1495

  Hernández Prieto, Miguel A ^a   Schön, Verena ^b   Georg, Jens ^b   Barreira, Luísa ^c   Varela, João ^c   Hess, Wolfgang R ^b   Futschik, Matthias E ^a  

^a Centre of Molecular and Structural Biomedicine   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Expression profiling; Iron homeostasis; Non coding RNA; Regulation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; IRON; MESSENGER RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA MICROARRAY; EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; IRON HOMEOSTASIS; METABOLISM; NON-CODING RNA; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SYNECHOCYSTIS; TIME;

CYANOBACTERIA; EXPRESSION PROFILING; IRON HOMEOSTASIS; NON-CODING RNA; REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; IRON; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SYNECHOCYSTIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84883147219     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.112.003863     Document Type: Article

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