Mining predicted essential genes of Brugia malayi for nematode drug targets

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Kumar, Sanjay ^a   Chaudhary, Kshitiz ^a   Foster, Jeremy M ^a   Novelli, Jacopo F ^a   Zhang, Yinhua ^a   Wang, Shiliang ^b   Spiro, David ^b   Ghedin, Elodie ^b,c   Carlow, Clotilde K S ^a  

^a NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

^b J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; NUCLEIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TARGETING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLTING; ORTHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; METAZOA;

ANIMALS; BRUGIA MALAYI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENES, HELMINTH; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 43149083089     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001189     Document Type: Article

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