Generation and phenotyping of a collection of sRNA gene deletion mutants of the haloarchaeon haloferax volcanii

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Jaschinski, Katharina ^a   Babski, Julia ^a   Lehr, Matthias ^a   Burmester, Anna ^a   Benz, Juliane ^b   Heyer, Ruth ^b   Dörr, Marcella ^b   Marchfelder, Anita ^b   Soppa, Jörg ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FLAGELLIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSFER RNA; ARCHAEAL RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; CARBON SOURCE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRESS; CELL STRUCTURE; CHEMOTAXIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DELETION MUTANT; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SELECTION; HALOBACTERIALES; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROKARYOTE; RNA ANALYSIS; UPREGULATION; ADAPTATION; ARCHAEAL GENE; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, ARCHAEAL; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; PHENOTYPE; RNA, ARCHAEAL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84898662114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090763     Document Type: Article

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