Silencing of essential genes within a highly coordinated operon in Escherichia coli

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 5650-5659

  Goh, Shan ^a   Hohmeier, Angela ^a   Stone, Timothy C ^a,b   Offord, Victoria ^a   Sarabia, Francisco ^c   Garcia Ruiz, Cristina ^c   Good, Liam ^a  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; LINEARIZATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RNA;

CO-ORDINATED GENE EXPRESSION; GENE DISRUPTIONS; GROWTH INHIBITION; GROWTH REDUCTION; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN INHIBITORS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TRANSCRIPT LEVEL;

GENE EXPRESSION;

BACTERIUM; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; PLASMID; RNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

COMPLEMENTARY RNA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OPERON; PLASMID; PROCEDURES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENE SILENCING; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; OPERON; PLASMIDS; RNA, ANTISENSE;

EID: 84937865312     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01444-15     Document Type: Article

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