Comprehensive analysis of the Corynebacterium glutamicum transcriptome using an improved RNAseq technique

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Pfeifer Sancar, Katharina ^a   Mentz, Almut ^a   Rückert, Christian ^a   Kalinowski, Jörn ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corynebacterium glutamicum; High throughput sequencing; RNA; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA ISOLATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BINDING SITES; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; GENE LIBRARY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84890290103     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-888     Document Type: Article

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