Enzymes are enriched in bacterial essential genes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Gao, Feng ^a   Zhang, Randy Ren ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; HYDROLASE; ISOMERASE; LIGASE; LYASE; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; TRANSFERASE;

ACINETOBACTER; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMICAL REACTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESSENTIAL GENE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGY; GENETICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENZYMES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL;

EID: 79959574838     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021683     Document Type: Article

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