A small, microRNA-size, ribonucleic acid regulating gene expression and development of Shiga toxin-converting bacteriophage ▪24b

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Nejman Faleńczyk, Bozena ^a   Bloch, Sylwia ^a   Licznerska, Katarzyna ^a   Dydecka, Aleksandra ^a   Felczykowska, Agnieszka ^a   Topka, Gracja ^a   Węgrzyn, Alicja ^a   Węgrzyn, Grzegorz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; SHIGA TOXIN; VIRUS RNA;

BIOSYNTHESIS; COLIPHAGE; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

COLIPHAGES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; MICRORNAS; RNA, VIRAL; SHIGA TOXIN; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS);

EID: 84929193251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10080     Document Type: Article

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