Plasmodium falciparum: hrp3 promoter region is associated with stage-specificity and episomal recombination

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 327-333

  López Estraño, Carlos ^a   Semblat, Jean Philippe ^b,c   Gopalakrishnan, Anusha M ^a   Turner, Leah ^b   Mazier, Dominique ^c   Haldar, Kasturi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

4 6 diamidino 2 phenylindole; Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein; calmodulin; cam; CAT; chloramphenicol acetyl transferase; DAPI; dhfr ts; dihydrofolate reductase thymidylate synthase; Expression; GFP; HD; HDGFP; heat shock protein 86; histidine rich protein 2; histidine rich protein 3; Histidine rich protein 3; hours post invasion; hpi; hrp2; hrp3; hsp86; human dihydrofolate reductase (hDHFR); human dihydrofolate reductase fused to Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein; merozoite surface protein 1; messenger ribonucleic acid; mRNA; msp1; PCR; PfEMP1; pfs16; pfs25; Plasmodium; Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1; Plasmodium falciparum sexual stage antigen 16; Plasmodium falciparum sexual stage antigen 25; polymerase chain reaction; Regulation; repetitively interspersed family; ribonucleic acid; ribosomal ribonucleic acid; rifin; RNA; rRNA; SDS; sodium dodecyl sulfate; Stage specificity; stevor; subtelomeric variable open reading frame; Transcription

Indexed keywords

HISTIDINE RICH PROTEIN 3; MESSENGER RNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISOME; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TROPHOZOITE;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT AGENTS; PLASMIDS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSFECTION;

AEQUOREA VICTORIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 34248233192     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2007.01.020     Document Type: Article

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