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ArticleJournal of bacteriology2015

Global transcriptional start site mapping using differential RNA sequencing reveals novel antisense RNAs in Escherichia coli.

Maureen K Thomason, Thorsten Bischler, Sara K Eisenbart, Konrad U Förstner, Aixia Zhang, Alexander Herbig, Kay Nieselt, Cynthia M Sharma, Gisela Storz

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Article in Journal of bacteriology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 212 papers.

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212 citing papers in PubMed, 361 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Maureen K ThomasonCell Biology and Metabolism Program, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Thorsten BischlerResearch Center for Infectious Diseases (ZINF), University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
Sara K EisenbartCell Biology and Metabolism Program, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Research Center for Infectious Diseases (ZINF), University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
Konrad U FörstnerResearch Center for Infectious Diseases (ZINF), University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
Aixia ZhangCell Biology and Metabolism Program, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Alexander HerbigCenter for Bioinformatics Tübingen (ZBIT), University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Kay NieseltCenter for Bioinformatics Tübingen (ZBIT), University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Cynthia M SharmaCell Biology and Metabolism Program, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Research Center for Infectious Diseases (ZINF), University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany cynthia.sharma@uni-wuerzburg.de storzg@mail.nih.gov.
Gisela StorzCell Biology and Metabolism Program, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA cynthia.sharma@uni-wuerzburg.de storzg@mail.nih.gov.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · USNational Institutes of Health · USUniversity of Würzburg · DEBernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Tübingen · DEUniversity of Tübingen · DE

Funding

Small Regulatory RNAsZIAHD001608 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI STORZ, GISELA · 2009 to 2025
$16.9M
Intramural NIH HHS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While the model organism Escherichia coli has been the subject of intense study for decades, the full complement of its RNAs is only now being examined. Here we describe a survey of the E. coli transcriptome carried out using a differential RNA sequencing (dRNA-seq) approach, which can distinguish between primary and processed transcripts, and an automated prediction algorithm for transcriptional start sites (TSS). With the criterion of expression under at least one of three growth conditions examined, we predicted 14,868 TSS candidates, including 5,574 internal to annotated genes (iTSS) and 5,495 TSS corresponding to potential antisense RNAs (asRNAs). We examined expression of 14 candidate asRNAs by Northern analysis using RNA from wild-type E. coli and from strains defective for RNases III and E, two RNases reported to be involved in asRNA processing. Interestingly, nine asRNAs detected as distinct bands by Northern analysis were differentially affected by the rnc and rne mutations. We also compared our asRNA candidates with previously published asRNA annotations from RNA-seq data and discuss the challenges associated with these cross-comparisons. Our global transcriptional start site map represents a valuable resource for identification of transcription start sites, promoters, and novel transcripts in E. coli and is easily accessible, together with the cDNA coverage plots, in an online genome browser.

Indexed as

Chromosome MappingEscherichia coliGene Expression Regulation, BacterialGenome, BacterialRNA, AntisenseRNA, BacterialSequence Analysis, RNATranscription Initiation SiteTranscriptomeRNA, AntisenseRNA, Bacterial

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PMID25266388
PMCPMC4288677
OpenAlexW2137390416

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