Transcriptome analysis of thermophilic methylotrophic Bacillus methanolicus MGA3 using RNA-sequencing provides detailed insights into its previously uncharted transcriptional landscape

BMC Genomics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Irla, Marta ^a   Neshat, Armin ^a   Brautaset, Trygve ^b,c   Rückert, Christian ^a   Kalinowski, Jörn ^a   Wendisch, Volker F ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SINTEF MATERIALS AND CHEMISTRY   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bacillus methanolicus; Conserved sequence motifs; Methylotrophy; Operon structures; Regulatory RNA; Ribosome binding sites; RNA sequencing; Transcript abundances; Transcriptional start sites; Transcriptome analysis

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE 5' PHOSPHOSULFATE; AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; GLUCOSAMINE PHOSPHATE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; RIBONUCLEASE P; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RNA 16S; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOREDOXIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ANOXYBACILLUS TEPIDAMANS; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS FIRMUS; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACILLUS METHANOLICUS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BINDING SITE; CHEMOTAXIS; DEINOCOCCUS; DNA LIBRARY; DNA MICROARRAY; FIRMICUTES; GENE MAPPING; GEOBACILLUS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METHYLOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PLASMID; POLYMERIZATION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PYRIMIDINE SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA ISOLATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; START CODON; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACILLUS METHANOLICUS;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RIBOSOMES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84924561743     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1239-4     Document Type: Article

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