Deep insights into Dictyocaulus viviparus transcriptomes provides unique prospects for new drug targets and disease intervention

Biotechnology Advances

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 261-271

  Cantacessi, Cinzia ^a   Gasser, Robin B ^a   Strube, Christina ^b   Schnieder, Thomas ^b   Jex, Aaron R ^a   Hall, Ross S ^a   Campbell, Bronwyn E ^a   Young, Neil D ^a   Ranganathan, Shoba ^c   Sternberg, Paul W ^e   Mitreva, Makedonka ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancylostoma secreted proteins; Bioinformatics; Bovine lungworm; Dictyocaulus viviparus; Drug target prediction; Next generation sequencing; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

BOVINE LUNGWORM; DICTYOCAULUS VIVIPARUS; DRUG TARGET PREDICTION; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; SECRETED PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOMES;

AMINO ACIDS; ENZYMES; FORECASTING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION;

BIOINFORMATICS;

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CATTLE; DISEASE TREATMENT; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LARVA; NEMATODE; PROTEIN; SECRETION; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMAL; CATTLE; DICTYOCAULOSIS; DICTYOCAULUS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CATTLE; DICTYOCAULUS; DICTYOCAULUS INFECTIONS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING;

ANCYLOSTOMA; BOS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DICTYOCAULUS VIVIPARUS;

EID: 79952700277     PISSN: 07349750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2010.11.005     Document Type: Review

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