Double-stranded RNA-mediated gene silencing of cysteine proteases (falcipain-1 and -2) of Plasmodium falciparum

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1245-1254

  Malhotra, Pawan ^a   Dasaradhi, Palakodeti V N ^a   Kumar, Amit ^a   Mohmmed, Asif ^a   Agrawal, Neema ^a   Bhatnagar, Raj K ^a   Chauhan, Virander S ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ICGEB   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; FALCIPAIN 1; FALCIPAIN 2; HEMOGLOBIN; MESSENGER RNA; N [N (3 CARBOXYOXIRANE 2 CARBONYL)LEUCYL]AGMATINE; NUCLEASE; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GROWTH INHIBITION; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS;

ANIMALS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0036049784     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03105.x     Document Type: Article

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