Identification of compounds with bioactivity against the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans by a screen based on the functional genomics of the marine bacterium Pseudoalteromonas tunicata D2

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 5710-5717

  Ballestriero, Francesco ^a   Thomas, Torsten ^a   Burke, Catherine ^a   Egan, Suhelen ^a   Kjelleberg, Staffan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISTIC ACTIVITY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CULTURABLE; E. COLI; ELEGANS; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENOMIC ANALYSIS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; INTESTINAL LUMEN; MARINE BACTERIUM; MICROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; MODEL ORGANISMS; NOVEL PROTEINS; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; RECOMBINANT HOSTS; SELECTIVE GRAZING; SMALL MOLECULES; TARGET ORGANISM; TOXIC COMPOUNDS;

BACTERIOLOGY; CLONING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ENCODING;

BACTERIA;

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ANTAGONISM; BIOACTIVITY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CLONE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; GENOMICS; GRAZING; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INHIBITOR; NEMATODE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS TUNICATA;

EID: 77956575692     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00695-10     Document Type: Article

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