Identification of novel small RNAs and characterization of the 6S RNA of Coxiella burnetii

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Warrier, Indu ^a   Hicks, Linda D ^a   Battisti, James M ^a   Raghavan, Rahul ^b   Minnick, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEASE P; RNA; RNA 6S; RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 6S RNA; BACTERIAL RNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; Q FEVER; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA ISOLATION; RNA STRUCTURE; VERO CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; METABOLISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UPREGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; COXIELLA BURNETII; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84903374536     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100147     Document Type: Article

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