Schistosoma mansoni: Germ-line transformation approaches and actin-promoter analysis

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 292-303

  Beckmann, Svenja ^a   Wippersteg, Volker ^b   El Bahay, Akram ^b   Hirzmann, Jörg ^a   Oliveira, Guilherme ^c   Grevelding, Christoph G ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Actin promoter region; calcineurin A; CNA; cysteine protease ER60; ER60; Germ line transformation; GFP; green fluorescent protein; heat shock protein 70; HSP70; reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; RT PCR; S. mansoni cathepsins; Schistosoma mansoni; Schistosoma mansoni actin gene 1; SmAct1; SmCF and SmCB2; TF; Transcription factor; transcription factor; untranslated region; UT

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; AMINO ACID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

COMPUTER MODEL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; GERM LINE; INTRON; INVERTEBRATE; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; MIRACIDIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SMACT1 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VERTEBRATE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BIOMPHALARIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; GERM-LINE MUTATION; INTRONS; LARVA; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

INVERTEBRATA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 35448966876     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2007.04.007     Document Type: Review

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