"Genes, Essential" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Those genes found in an organism which are necessary for its viability and normal function.
| Descriptor ID |
D020043
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G05.360.340.024.340.270
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| Concept/Terms |
Genes, Housekeeping- Genes, Housekeeping
- Gene, Housekeeping
- Housekeeping Gene
- Housekeeping Genes
- Genes, House-keeping
- Gene, House-keeping
- Genes, House keeping
- House-keeping Gene
- House-keeping Genes
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Genes, Essential" by people in Profiles.
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Afonina I, Ong J, Chua J, Lu T, Kline KA. Multiplex CRISPRi System Enables the Study of Stage-Specific Biofilm Genetic Requirements in Enterococcus faecalis. mBio. 2020 10 20; 11(5).
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Eswara PJ, Brzozowski RS, Viola MG, Graham G, Spanoudis C, Trebino C, Jha J, Aubee JI, Thompson KM, Camberg JL, Ramamurthi KS. An essential Staphylococcus aureus cell division protein directly regulates FtsZ dynamics. Elife. 2018 10 02; 7.
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Singh AK, Carette X, Potluri LP, Sharp JD, Xu R, Prisic S, Husson RN. Investigating essential gene function in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using an efficient CRISPR interference system. Nucleic Acids Res. 2016 Oct 14; 44(18):e143.
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Durand-Heredia J, Rivkin E, Fan G, Morales J, Janakiraman A. Identification of ZapD as a cell division factor that promotes the assembly of FtsZ in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol. 2012 Jun; 194(12):3189-98.
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Norris MH, Kang Y, Lu D, Wilcox BA, Hoang TT. Glyphosate resistance as a novel select-agent-compliant, non-antibiotic-selectable marker in chromosomal mutagenesis of the essential genes asd and dapB of Burkholderia pseudomallei. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2009 Oct; 75(19):6062-75.