Stable transfection in the monogenetic trypanosomatid Leptomonas collosoma - Transcription barrier of heterologous trypanosomatid SL RNA genes and expression of a chimeric SL RNA molecule

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 28-41

  Goldring, Anat ^a   Zimmer, Yitzhak ^a   Ben Yehuda, Ehud ^a   Goncharov, Igor ^a   Michaeli, Shulamit ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALIA; LEISHMANIA AMAZONENSIS; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEPTOMONAS COLLOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 0030272296     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1996.0087     Document Type: Article

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