Proteomic analysis of tardigrades: Towards a better understanding of molecular mechanisms by anhydrobiotic organisms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Schokraie, Elham ^a   Hotz Wagenblatt, Agnes ^a   Warnken, Uwe ^a   Mali, Brahim ^b   Frohme, Marcus ^b   Förster, Frank ^c   Dandekar, Thomas ^c   Hengherr, Steffen ^d   Schill, Ralph O ^d   Schnölzer, Martina ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WILDAU   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; PROTEOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANHYDROBIOSIS; ARTICLE; ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; HIGH RESOLUTION TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; MILNESIUM TARDIGRADUM; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; TARDIGRADE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTIG MAPPING; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETICS; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN DATABASE; TARDIGRADA; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

INVERTEBRATA; MILNESIUM TARDIGRADUM; TARDIGRADA;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CONTIG MAPPING; DATABASES, PROTEIN; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS; SOFTWARE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; TARDIGRADA;

EID: 77949838776     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009502     Document Type: Article

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