The Streptococcus suis transcriptional landscape reveals adaptation mechanisms in pig blood and cerebrospinal fluid

RNA

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 882-898

  Wu, Zongfu ^a,b   Wu, Chunyan ^c   Shao, Jing ^a,b   Zhu, Zhenzhen ^c   Wang, Weixue ^a,b   Zhang, Wenwei ^c   Tang, Min ^a,b   Pei, Na ^c   Fan, Hongjie ^a,b,d   Li, Jiguang ^c   Yao, Huochun ^a,b   Gu, Hongwei ^e   Xu, Xun ^c   Lu, Chengping ^a,b  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (China)

^c BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^d YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Differential RNA seq; Small RNAs; Streptococcus suis; TSS map; Virulence

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL RNA; CAPSULAR POLYSACCHARIDE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC BINDING PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BLOOD; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE;

DIFFERENTIAL RNA-SEQ; SMALL RNAS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; TSS MAP; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; OPERON; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE DELETION; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION; VIRULENCE; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84901464007     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.041822.113     Document Type: Article

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