Variations in the non-coding transcriptome as a driver of inter-strain divergence and physiological adaptation in bacteria

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Kopf, Matthias ^a   Klähn, Stephan ^a   Scholz, Ingeborg ^a   Hess, Wolfgang R ^a   Voß, Björn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; LYSR PROTEIN, BACTERIA; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADAPTATION; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYNECHOCYSTIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYNECHOCYSTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84928740583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep09560     Document Type: Article

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