Non-coding RNA regulation in pathogenic bacteria located inside eukaryotic cells

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Ortega, Álvaro D ^a,c   Quereda, Juan J ^a,d   Graciela Pucciarelli, M ^a,b   García del Portillo, Francisco ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Intracellular infection; Non coding RNA; Pathogen; Regulation

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNTRANSLATED RNA; BACTERIAL RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COXIELLA BURNETII; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION ASSAY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR BACTERIUM; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSLATION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON INSERTION SEQUENCING; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84915782127     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22352988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2014.00162     Document Type: Review

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