Transcriptomic analysis of (Group I) Clostridium botulinum ATCC 3502 cold shock response

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Dahlsten, Elias ^a   Isokallio, Marita ^a   Somervuo, Panu ^a   Lindström, Miia ^a   Korkeala, Hannu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; IRON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CBO 0097 GENE; CBO 0477 GENE; CBO 0558A GENE; CBO 0751 GENE; CBO 0753 GENE; CBO 1323 GENE; CBO 1407 GENE; CBO 2226 GENE; CBO 2227 GENE; CBO 2304 GENE; CBO 2525 GENE; CBO 2847 GENE; CBO 2961 GENE; CBO 3197 GENE; CBO 3202 GENE; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM ATCC 3502; COLD EXPOSURE; COLD SHOCK RESPONSE; COLD TOLERANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DOWN REGULATION; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; IRON STORAGE; IRON TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLD-SHOCK RESPONSE; FATTY ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84896072229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089958     Document Type: Article

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