Tetracycline treatment targeting Wolbachia affects expression of an array of proteins in Brugia malayi parasite

Proteomics

Volumn 9, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 4192-4208

  Dangi, Anil ^a   Vedi, Satish ^a   Nag, Jeetendra Kumar ^a   Paithankar, Sameer ^b   Singh, Mahendra Pratap ^c   Kar, Santosh Kumar ^b   Dube, Anuradha ^a   Misra Bhattacharya, Shailja ^a  

^a CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

2 D protein profile; Animal proteomics; Brugia malayi; Tetracycline; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTHELMINTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRUGIA MALAYI; BRUGIAN FILARIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEOMICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; BRUGIA MALAYI; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HELMINTH PROTEINS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; PARASITES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEOME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TETRACYCLINE; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALIA; BRUGIA; BRUGIA MALAYI; MERIONES; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA ENDOSYMBIONT OF BRUGIA MALAYI;

EID: 69949097618     PISSN: 16159853     EISSN: 16159861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200800324     Document Type: Article

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