Transcriptional landscape and essential genes of Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 10579-10595

  Remmele, Christian W ^a   Xian, Yibo ^a   Albrecht, Marco ^a   Faulstich, Michaela ^a   Fraunholz, Martin ^a   Heinrichs, Elisabeth ^a   Dittrich, Marcus T ^a   Müller, Tobias ^a   Reinhardt, Richard ^b   Rudel, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNTRANSLATED RNA; RIBOSWITCH;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ABC TRANSPORTER ATP BINDING PROTEIN PERMEASE GENE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BETA KETOACYL ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN SYNTHASE II GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL WALL BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA REPLICATION; ESSENTIAL GENE; FKPA GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HPHLA GENE; HPHLB GENE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; OMP85 GENE; OPA GENE; OPERON; PORB GENE; RIBOSWITCH; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RPOH GENE; TRANSLATION REGULATION; URIDYLATE KINASE GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RIBOSWITCH; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84921326751     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku762     Document Type: Article

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