TY  - JOUR
A1  - Albrecht, Marco
A1  - Sharma, Cynthia M.
A1  - Reinhardt, Richard
A1  - Vogel, Joerg
A1  - Rudel, Thomas
T1  - Deep sequencing-based discovery of the Chlamydia trachomatis transcriptome
N2  - Chlamydia trachomatis is an obligate intracellular pathogenic bacterium that has been refractory to genetic manipulations. Although the genomes of several strains have been sequenced, very little information is available on the gene structure of these bacteria. We used deep sequencing to define the transcriptome of purified elementary bodies (EB) and reticulate bodies (RB) of C. trachomatis L2b, respectively. Using an RNAseq approach, we have mapped 363 transcriptional start sites (TSS) of annotated genes. Semiquantitative analysis of mapped cDNA reads revealed differences in the RNA levels of 84 genes isolated from EB and RB, respectively. We have identified and in part confirmed 42 genome- and 1 plasmid-derived novel non-coding RNAs. The genome encoded non-coding RNA, ctrR0332 was one of the most abundantly and differentially expressed RNA in EB and RB, implying an important role in the developmental cycle of C. trachomatis. The detailed map of TSS in a thus far unprecedented resolution as a complement to the genome sequence will help to understand the organization, control and function of genes of this important pathogen.
KW  - Biologie
Y1  - 2010
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-68389
ER  -