Trypanosoma cruzi: Expression of interleukin-2 utilizing both supercoiled plasmids and linear DNAs

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 159-163

  La Flamme, Anne C ^a   Buckner, Frederick S ^a   Swindle, John ^b   Ajioka, Janet ^b   Van Voorhis, Wesley C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Calmodulin ubiquitin loci; Chagas' disease; IL 2; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 2; UBIQUITIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0030176452     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1996.0061     Document Type: Article

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