Inhibition of Staphylococcus aureus gene expression and growth using antisense peptide nucleic acids

Molecular Therapy

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 652-659

  Nekhotiaeva, Natalia ^a   Awasthi, Satish Kumar ^b,c   Nielsen, Peter E ^c   Good, Liam ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Antisense; Cell delivery; Peptide; Peptide nucleic acid; PNA; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; CARRIER PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFICACY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENE TECHNOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GROWTH INHIBITION; INHIBITION KINETICS; MICROBIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; REPORTER GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; START CODON;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTISENSE ELEMENTS (GENETICS); BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACIDS; RNA, MESSENGER; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 4644226298     PISSN: 15250016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2004.07.006     Document Type: Article

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