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Genome-wide screen for temperature-regulated genes of the obligate intracellular bacterium, Rickettsia typhi

Sheila M Dreher-Lesnick email, Shane M Ceraul email, M Sayeedur Rahman email and Abdu F Azad email

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland, 660 W. Redwood Street, Room HH324B, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA

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BMC Microbiology 2008, 8:61doi:10.1186/1471-2180-8-61

Published: 15 April 2008

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Additional file 1:

Analysis of the Affymetrix presence and absent calls for genes on the array. Figure showing overview of all genes on the array sorted by the Affymetrix assigned presence and absence scores for all 6 replicates.

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Additional file 2:

Final list of genes that were screened for differential expression patterns in response to a shift down in temperature. This excel file is a comprehensive list for the genes selected for continued analysis for this study. It contains the gene IDs, annotations, COG descriptors, fold change values and p values.

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Additional file 3:

List of genes with absent calls on all array runs. This excel file contains a list of all the genes that showed low or no signal intensities and were assigned absent calls for all replicates by the Affymetrix GCOS software program.

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Additional file 4:

Raw array data. This excel file contains the raw data for all 6 arrays.

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Venn Diagram outlining overlap in fold change analysis using Spotfire and SAM. A. Venn diagram showing number of genes with significant downregulated fold change using SAM and Spotfire. B. Venn diagram showing number of genes with significant upregulated fold change using SAM and Spotfire.

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Additional file 6:

List of primers used for Real Time qRT-PCR validation. This excel file contains the list of genes analyzed for Real Time qRT-PCR and the corresponding primer sequences.

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