Assessing the effectiveness of functional genetic screens for the identification of bioactive metabolites

Marine Drugs

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 40-49

  Penesyan, Anahit ^a,b   Ballestriero, Francesco ^a   Daim, Malak ^a   Kjelleberg, Staffan ^a,c   Thomas, Torsten ^a   Egan, Suhelen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Antibacterial; Antinematode; Caenorhabditis elegans; Fosmid libraries; Functional genomic screen; Marine bacteria; Marine bioactives

Indexed keywords

DRUG METABOLITE; GENOMIC DNA; MICROBIAL PRODUCTS NOT CLASSIFIED ELSEWHERE;

ALGA; ANTHELMINTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELISEA PULCHRA; DNA LIBRARY; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SCREENING; MARINE BACTERIUM; MARINE SPECIES; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ULVA AUSTRALIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84873118613     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16603397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/md11010040     Document Type: Article

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