The effect of location and direction of an episomal gene on the restoration of a phenotype by functional complementation in Leishmania

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 141-148

  Pedrosa, André L ^a   Cruz, Angela K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cosmid vectors; DHFRTS; Functional complementation; Leishmania; Loss of heterozigosity

Indexed keywords

HYGROMYCIN B; HYGROMYCIN PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; KANAMYCIN KINASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; THYMIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID; EPISOME; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOSS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; LEISHMANIA; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; COSMIDS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LEISHMANIA; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 0036063321     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(02)00093-2     Document Type: Article

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