RNA interference in trypanosomes transfected with sense and antisense plasmids

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 149-152

  Drozdz, Maciej ^a   Quijada, Luis ^a   Clayton, Christine E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antisense; RNA interference; Trypanosoma

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HYGROMYCIN; NEOMYCIN; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL LINE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; LEISHMANIA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA VIRUS; TRANSPOSON; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GENE SILENCING; PLASMIDS; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; TRANSFECTION; TRYPANOSOMA;

EUKARYOTA; RNA VIRUSES; TRANSPOSONS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0037197712     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(02)00018-X     Document Type: Article

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