Detection of 224 candidate structured RNAs by Comparative analysis of specific subsets of intergenic regions

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 45, Issue 18, 2017, Pages 10811-10823

  Weinberg, Zasha ^a,b   Lünse, Christina E ^a,b   Corbino, Keith A ^a   Ames, Tyler D ^a,c   Nelson, James W ^a,d   Roth, Adam ^a   Perkins, Kevin R ^a   Sherlock, Madeline E ^a   Breaker, Ronald R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c Phosplatin Therapeutics   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; UNTRANSLATED RNA; BACTERIAL RNA; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTEGRON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION;

INTEGRONS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PLASMIDS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 85032934110     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx699     Document Type: Article

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