Deep sequencing analyses expands the Pseudomonas aeruginosa AmpR regulon to include small RNA-mediated regulation of iron acquisition, heat shock and oxidative stress response

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 979-998

  Balasubramanian, Deepak ^a,b   Kumari, Hansi ^b   Jaric, Melita ^a   Fernandez, Mitch ^a   Turner, Keith H ^c   Dove, Simon L ^c   Narasimhan, Giri ^a   Lory, Stephen ^c   Mathee, Kalai ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

AMPR GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEAT SHOCK; IRON TRANSPORT; LASR GENE; MVFR GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; REGULON; RHLR GENE; RNA SEQUENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; IRON; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPERON; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENAZINES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; REGULON; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84893304286     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt942     Document Type: Article

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