Insertional tagging of at least two loci associated with resistance to adenine arabinoside in Toxoplasma gondii, and cloning of the adenosine kinase locus

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-14

  Sullivan Jr , William J ^a   Chiang, Chi Wu ^b   Wilson, Craig M ^b   Naguib, Fardos N M ^c   El Kouni, Mahmoud H ^c   Donald, Robert G K ^a   Roos, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenosine kinase; Adenosine transport; Gene targeting; Insertional mutagenesis; Knock out mutants; Molecular parasitology; Purine metabolism

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE KINASE; VIDARABINE;

ARTICLE; CLONE; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0345672739     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(99)00114-0     Document Type: Article

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