A small RNA encoded in the Rv2660c locus of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is induced during starvation and infection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Houghton, Joanna ^a   Cortes, Teresa ^a   Schubert, Olga ^b   Rose, Graham ^a   Rodgers, Angela ^a   De Ste Croix, Megan ^a   Aebersold, Rudolf ^b   Young, Douglas B ^a   Arnvig, Kristine B ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MESSENGER RNA; RV2660C PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL STARVATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHAGE DISPLAY; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TUBERCULOSIS; UPREGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRION;

EID: 84892543611     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080047     Document Type: Article

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