Host-bacterial coevolution and the search for new drug targets

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 109-114

  Zaneveld, Jesse ^a   Turnbaugh, Peter J ^b   Lozupone, Catherine ^a,b   Ley, Ruth E ^b   Hamady, Micah ^c   Gordon, Jeffrey I ^b   Knight, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG TARGETING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENOMICS; GERMFREE ANIMAL; HOST; METABOLIC CAPACITY; METAGENOMIC; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SYMBIONT;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 40849126449     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.01.015     Document Type: Review

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