Functional expression of the gene encoding cytidine triphosphate synthetase from Plasmodium falciparum which contains two novel sequences that are potential antimalarial targets

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 200-208

  Yuan, Ping ^a,b   Hendriks, Edward F ^a,c   Fernandez, Harvey R ^a   O'Sullivan, William J ^a   Stewart, Thomas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CTP synthetase; Heterologous expression; Insert; PCR mediated gene synthesis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT GENE;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBON-NITROGEN LIGASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 23944479424     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2005.06.004     Document Type: Article

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