Article
Beta-tubulin genes from the parasitic nematode Haemonchus contortus modulate drug resistance in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Journal of molecular biology - 3 Mar 1995
Kwa M S, Veenstra J G, Van Dijk M, Roos M H
Abstract excerpt
Resistance to antimitotic chemotherapeutics in pathogenic nematodes, fungi and mammalian cells is closely associated with structural changes in cytoskeletal beta-tubulin. We investigated the possibility of using the well-characterised free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a model for stu...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antinematodal Agents
- Base Sequence
- Caenorhabditis elegans
- Drug Resistance
- Haemonchus
- Helminth Proteins
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Structure-Activity Relationship
- Transformation, Genetic
- Tubulin
