Plasmodium yoelii: Cloning and characterization of the gene encoding for the mitochondrial heat shock protein 601

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 181-190

  Sanchez, Gloria I ^a,b   Carucci, Daniel J ^b   Sacci Jr , John ^b,c   Resau, James H ^d   Rogers, William O ^b   Kumar, Nirbhay ^a   Hoffman, Stephen L ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTISERUM; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 60; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; NUCLEOTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE; RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM YOELII; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032761054     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1999.4455     Document Type: Article

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