A silenced Plasmodium falciparum var promoter can be activated in vivo through spontaneous deletion of a silencing element in the intron

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 490-492

  Gannoun Zaki, Laïla ^a   Jost, Amy ^a   Mu, Jianbing ^a   Deitsch, Kirk W ^b   Wellems, Thomas E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; INTRON; METABOLISM; PLASMID; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE;

ANIMALS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENES, REPORTER; INTRONS; PLASMIDS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 13844306877     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.4.2.490-492.2005     Document Type: Article

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