Promoter-directed expression of recombinant fire-fly luciferase in the salivary glands of Hermes-transformed Aedes aegypti

Gene

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 317-325

  Coates, Craig J ^a   Jasinskiene, Nijole ^a   Pott, Gregory B ^b   James, Anthony A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Box C238 Sch Pharm Univ C   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease vector; Genetic transformation; Mosquito; Promoter analysis

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; LUCIFERASE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; SALIVARY GLAND; YELLOW FEVER;

AEDES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEETLES; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL LINE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENES, REPORTER; LUCIFERASES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SALIVARY GLANDS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

AEDES AEGYPTI; INSECTA;

EID: 0033590640     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00557-5     Document Type: Article

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