Molecular strategies of the Caenorhabditis elegans dauer larva to survive extreme desiccation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Erkut, Cihan ^a   Vasilj, Andrej ^a   Boland, Sebastian ^a   Habermann, Bianca ^b   Shevchenko, Andrej ^a   Kurzchalia, Teymuras V ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; POLYAMINE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANHYDROBIOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DESICCATION; FATTY ACID DESATURATION; LARVA; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOPLASM; DEHYDRATION; DESICCATION; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; LARVA; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; NEURONS; POLYAMINES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SENSATION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84891811683     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082473     Document Type: Article

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