Transgenic Plasmodium berghei sporozoites expressing β-galactosidase for quantification of sporozoite transmission

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 30-37

  Engelmann, Sabine ^a   Sinnis, Photini ^b   Matuschewski, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Galactosidase; LacZ; Plasmodium; Quantitative assay; Reporter gene; Sporozoite

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SPOROZOITE; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANOPHELES; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, REPORTER; MALARIA; MICE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SPOROZOITES;

ANIMALIA; ANOPHELES (GENUS); PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 31144470617     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2005.10.015     Document Type: Article

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