RNA-seq reveals the RNA binding proteins, Hfq and RsmA, play various roles in virulence, antibiotic production and genomic flux in Serratia sp. ATCC 39006

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wilf, Nabil M ^a   Reid, Adam J ^b   Ramsay, Joshua P ^a,c   Williamson, Neil R ^a   Croucher, Nicholas J ^b   Gatto, Laurent ^a   Hester, Svenja S ^a   Goulding, David ^b   Barquist, Lars ^b   Lilley, Kathryn S ^a   Kingsley, Robert A ^b   Dougan, Gordon ^b   Salmond, George P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CARBAPENEM; PRODIGIOSIN; PROTEIN HFQ; PROTEIN RSMA; PROTEOME; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SURFACTANT; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BACTERIUM PILUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLUM; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMIC FLUX; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROPHAGE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REGULON; RNA SEQUENCE; SERRATIA; SUPERNATANT; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA; SERRATIA SP. ATCC 39006; SUIDAE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FLAGELLA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; MUTATION; OPERON; PRODIGIOSIN; PROTEOME; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SERRATIA; TRANSCRIPTOME; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84887917532     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-822     Document Type: Article

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