Expression, selection, and organellar targeting of the green fluorescent protein in Toxoplasma gondii

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 1998, Pages

  Striepen, Boris ^a   He, Cynthia Yingxin ^a   Matrajt, Mariana ^b   Soldati, Dominique ^c   Roos, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Instituto Nacional de Microbiologia Dr Carlos GMalbran   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dense granule; FACS; Fluorescent protein; Fusion proteins; Genetic selection strategies; Protein secretion; Protozoan parasite; Rhoptry

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DENSE BODY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC SELECTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; ORGANELLES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 0032078205     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00011-5     Document Type: Article

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