Stable DNA transfection of a wide range of trypanosomatids

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 169-179

  Coburn, Cara M ^a   Otteman, Karen M ^a   McNeely, Tessie ^b   Turco, Salvatore J ^b   Beverley, Stephen M ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amastigote; Crithidia; Endotrypanum; Extra chromosomal DNA; Hybrid RNAs; Leishmania; Galactosidase

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CRITHIDIA; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VECTORS; HAMSTERS; HUMAN; MESOCRICETUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOCYTES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSFECTION; TRYPANOSOMATINA;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; CRITHIDIA; ENDOTRYPANUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEISHMANIA AMAZONENSIS; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 0025963070     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(91)90210-W     Document Type: Article

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