Physical and functional mapping of the transcriptional start sites of Plasmodium falciparum proliferating cell nuclear antigen

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 207-215

  Horrocks, Paul ^a   Kilbey, Brian J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Firefly luciferase; Malaria; Transient transfection

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MAPPING; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0030602271     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(96)02737-5     Document Type: Article

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