Genome-wide determination of transcription start sites reveals new insights into promoter structures in the actinomycete Corynebacterium glutamicum

Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 257, Issue , 2017, Pages 99-109

  Albersmeier, Andreas ^a   Pfeifer Sancar, Katharina ^a   Rückert, Christian ^a   Kalinowski, Jörn ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

House keeping sigma factor; RNA seq; 10 region; 35 region

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION;

-10 REGION; -35 REGION; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; PROTEIN CODING REGIONS; SIGMA FACTOR; SPECIFIC PROPERTIES; TRANSCRIPTION START SITE;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PURINE; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; RNA; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOINFORMATICS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DNA HELIX; DNA LIBRARY; NONHUMAN; POSITION WEIGHT MATRIX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SOIL MICROFLORA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AT RICH SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85020104571     PISSN: 01681656     EISSN: 18734863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2017.04.008     Document Type: Article

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