A combination of improved differential and global RNA-seq reveals pervasive transcription initiation and events in all stages of the life-cycle of functional RNAs in Propionibacterium acnes, a major contributor to wide-spread human disease

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lin, Yu fei ^a   A, David R ^a   Guan, Shuang ^a   Mamanova, Lira ^b   McDowall, Kenneth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Differential and global RNA seq; Leaderless mRNA; Pervasive transcription; Promoters and regulatory elements; RNA degradation and processing; Small non protein coding RNAs; Transcriptional landscape

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MAPPING; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; QUORUM SENSING; RIBOSWITCH; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84885410721     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-620     Document Type: Article

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