Pharyngeal polysaccharide deacetylases affect development in the nematode C. elegans and deacetylate chitin in vitro

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Heustis, Ronald J ^a   Ng, Hong K ^a,c   Brand, Kenneth J ^a,d   Rogers, Meredith C ^a,e   Le, Linda T ^a   Specht, Charles A ^b   Fuhrman, Juliet A ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c ST GEORGE S UNIVERSITY   (Grenada)

^d Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; CHITOSAN; EOSIN; POLYSACCHARIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE DEACETYLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DEACETYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL CELL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHARYNX; PHYLUM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ACETYLATION; AMIDOHYDROLASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHITIN; CHITOSAN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHARYNX; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOLUBILITY; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE EXTRACTS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; NEMATODA; PROTISTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84863768150     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040426     Document Type: Article

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