Linker scanning mutagenesis of the Plasmodium gallinaceum sexual stage specific gene pgs28 reveals a novel downstream cis-control element

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 199-208

  Chow, Connie S ^a,b   Wirth, Dyann F ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b SIMMONS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

5 transcript end; Malaria; Ookinete; Transcription

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; NUCLEAR FACTOR; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DOWN REGULATION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PGS28 GENE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ZYGOTE;

EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0038015442     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(03)00101-4     Document Type: Article

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