Phenotypic changes associated with deletion and overexpression of a stage-regulated gene family in Leishmania

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 511-523

  McKean, Paul G ^a   Denny, Paul W ^a   Knuepfer, Ellen ^a   Keen, Jane K ^a   Smith, Deborah F ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GLYCOPROTEIN; LIPID; LIPOPHOSPHOGLYCAN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INVASION; CELL SURVIVAL; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; DIPLOIDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HOMOZYGOSITY; HYDROPHILICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MACROPHAGE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; CELL DIVISION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOTYPE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034875876     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-5822.2001.00135.x     Document Type: Article

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