RsmW, Pseudomonas aeruginosa small non-coding RsmA-binding RNA upregulated in biofilm versus planktonic growth conditions

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Miller, Christine L ^a   Romero, Manuel ^b   Karna, S L Rajasekhar ^a   Chen, Tsute ^c   Heeb, Stephan ^b   Leung, Kai P ^a  

^a JBSA Fort Sam Houston ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c FORSYTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOFILM; CHEMICAL BINDING; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH CURVE; IDENTITY; IN VITRO STUDY; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RACE; RNA SEQUENCE; SPECIES; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE; ALGORITHM; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; UPREGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA-LACTAMASE POXB, PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; GACA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; RHLR PROTEIN, PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; BIOFILMS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84979670103     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12866-016-0771-y     Document Type: Article

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