How to find RNA thermometers

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Righetti, Francesco ^a   Narberhaus, Franz ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heat shock; Next generation sequencing; Regulatory RNA; RNA structure; Virulence

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR; BACTERIAL RNA;

ANABAENA VARIABILIS; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PSEUDOMONAS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOREGULATION; THERMOSYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; VIRULENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, BACTERIAL; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84906997369     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22352988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2014.00132     Document Type: Review

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