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SUBMITTER: Dornenburg JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2912661 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dornenburg James E JE Devita Anne M AM Palumbo Michael J MJ Wade Joseph T JT
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The vast majority of annotated transcripts in bacteria are mRNAs. Here we identify ~1,000 antisense transcripts in the model bacterium Escherichia coli. We propose that these transcripts are generated by promiscuous transcription initiation within genes and that many of them regulate expression of the overlapping gene. ...[more]