Use of the green fluorescent protein as a marker in transfected Leishmania

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 57-64

  Sean Ha, D ^a   Schwarz, James K ^a   Turco, Salvatore J ^b   Beverley, Stephen M ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescent tag; Glycolipid biosynthesis secretory pathway; Glycolipids; GPI anchors; Lipophosphoglycan; Protozoan parasite

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; GLYCOLIPID; LIPOPHOSPHOGLYCAN; MARKER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING;

AEQUOREA VICTORIA; ANIMALIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE; VICTORIA;

EID: 0343267840     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(96)02580-7     Document Type: Article

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