Cloning, sequence and expression of the lactate dehydrogenase gene from the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium vivax

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 1051-1055

  Turgut Balik, Dilek ^a   Akbulut, Ekrem ^a   Shoemark, Debbie K ^b   Celik, Venhar ^a   Moreton, Kathleen M ^b   Sessions, Richard B ^b   Holbrook, J John ^b   Brady, R Leo ^b  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anti malarial; gene cloning; homology model; lactate dehydrogenase; Plasmodium vivax

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROKARYOTA; PROTOZOA; VECTORS; EUKARYOTA;

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 3042806398     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/b:bile.0000032958.78158.10     Document Type: Article

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