A new drug design strategy: Killing drug resistant bacteria by deactivating their hypothetical genes

作者:Wong Tit Yee*; Kuo Jimmy
来源:Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part C-Environmental Carcinogenesis & Ecotoxicology Reviews, 2016, 34(4): 276-292.
DOI:10.1080/10590501.2016.1236605

摘要

Despite that a bacterial genome is complicated by large numbers of horizontally transferred (HT) genes and function unknown hypothetical (FUN) genes, the Genic-Transcriptional-Stop-Signals-Ratio (TSSR) of a genome shows that HT and FUN genes are complementary to all other genes in the genome. When HT or certain FUN genes are omitted from the Escherichia coli K-12 genome, its Genomic-TSSR value becomes totally incomparable to other E. coli strains. The Genic-TSSR correlation tree of a pathogen shows that some FUN genes would form a unique cluster. Removing these genes by site-specific mutation or gene-knockout should lead to the demise of this pathogen.

  • 出版日期2016