Heterologous promoter activity in stable and transient Plasmodium knowlesi transgenes

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-64

  Ozwara, Hastings ^a,b   Van Der Wel, Annemarie ^a   Kocken, Clemens H M ^a   Thomas, Alan W ^a  

^a BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Green fluorescent protein; Luciferase; Plasmodium knowlesi; Promoters; Transfection

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENE;

PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0141560352     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(03)00141-5     Document Type: Article

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