Molecular cloning and characterization of the Plasmodium falciparum cytidine triphosphate synthetase gene

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1399, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 213-218

  Hendriks, Edward F ^a   O'Sullivan, William J ^a   Stewart, Thomas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

(Plasmodium falciparum); Cytidine triphosphate synthetase; Insert; Pyrimidine biosynthesis

Indexed keywords

CYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBON-NITROGEN LIGASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0032552035     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(98)00108-0     Document Type: Article

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