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A genome-wide strategy for the identification of essential genes in Staphylococcus aureusR Allyn Forsyth
Elitra Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, CA 92121, USA
Mol Microbiol 43:1387-400. 2002..This approach enables facile assay development for high throughput screening for any essential gene, independent of its biochemical function, thereby greatly facilitating the search for new antibiotics...
Genome-wide operon prediction in Staphylococcus aureusLiangsu Wang
Elitra Pharmaceuticals Inc, 10410 Science Center Drive, San Diego, CA 92121, USA
Nucleic Acids Res 32:3689-702. 2004..This consensus approach has enabled us to predict operons with high accuracy from a genome where limited experimental evidence for operon structure is available...
Pharmacoeconomics of treatment with the newer anti-Gram-positive agentsLiangsu Wang
Department of Infectious Diseases, Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ 07065, USA
Expert Opin Pharmacother 7:885-97. 2006..e., spectrum, activity, resistance emergence, efficacy, target, safety) provide a basis for an emerging pharmacoeconomic-based distinction between these newer anti-Gram-positive agents...
Development of an integrated semi-automated system for in vitro pharmacodynamic modellingLiangsu Wang
Department of Infectious Disease Research, Merck Research Laboratories, 126 E Lincoln Avenue, Rahway, NJ 07065, USA
J Antimicrob Chemother 62:1070-7. 2008..The aim of this study was to develop an integrated system for in vitro pharmacodynamic modelling of antimicrobials with greater flexibility, easier control and better accuracy than existing in vitro models...
Staphylococcus aureus TargetArray: comprehensive differential essential gene expression as a mechanistic tool to profile antibacterialsH Howard Xu
Elitra Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, California 92121, USA
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 54:3659-70. 2010..A rapid detection method measures strain responses toward antibiotics. The TargetArray antibiotic fitness test results show mechanistically informative biological fingerprints that allow MOA elucidation...
Control and prevention of MRSA infectionsLiangsu Wang
Infectious Disease Research, Merck and Co Inc, Rahway, NJ, USA
Methods Mol Biol 391:209-25. 2007..With the realization that MRSA is now a community problem, there are expanded efforts toward more direct intervention, such as the use of anti-MRSA antibacterials and vaccines, in an attempt to reduce the overall burden of MRSA...
A Staphylococcus aureus fitness test platform for mechanism-based profiling of antibacterial compoundsRobert G K Donald
Merck Research Laboratories, Merck and Co, Rahway, NJ 07065, USA
Chem Biol 16:826-36. 2009..2009), demonstrate its use in the discovery of new cell wall inhibitors...
Techniques for the isolation and use of conditionally expressed antisense RNA to achieve essential gene knockdowns in Staphylococcus aureusAllyn Forsyth
GHC Technologies, Inc, La Jolla, CA, USA
Methods Mol Biol 416:307-21. 2008..Antisense RNA strategies have high utility when the target gene is essential for survival and needs to be compared with wild type...
