Genomics, proteomics, and genetics of leptospira

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 387, Issue , 2015, Pages 43-63

  Picardeau, Mathieu ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VECTOR; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; SPECTINOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM CULTURE; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LEPTOSPIRA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEOMICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSWITCH; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; UPREGULATION; GENETICS;

LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA BIFLEXA;

GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; LEPTOSPIRA; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEOMICS;

EID: 84921829900     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: 21969965     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-45059-8_4     Document Type: Article

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