Gene silencing by CRISPR interference in mycobacteria

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Choudhary, Eira ^a   Thakur, Preeti ^a   Pareek, Madhu ^a   Agarwal, Nisheeth ^a  

^a Translational Health Science and Technology Institute   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUIDE RNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID; RECOMBINATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MUTATION; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; UPREGULATION; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; OPERON; PLASMID;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OPERON; PLASMIDS;

EID: 84923869859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7267     Document Type: Article

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