A dispensable Plasmodium locus for stable transgene expression

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 40-44

  Jacobs Lorena, Vanessa Y ^a,b   Mikolajczak, Sebastian A ^a   Labaied, Mehdi ^a   Vaughan, Ashley M ^a   Kappe, Stefan H I ^a,b  

^a SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Complementation locus; Heterologous gene expression; Malaria; Plasmodium; Reverse genetics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPLICATION; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PLASMODIUM (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); PLASMODIUM YOELII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROZOITE; STABLE EXPRESSION; TRANSGENE; WILD TYPE;

BLOOD; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LIVER; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM YOELII; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPORES, PROTOZOAN; TRANSGENES;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM YOELII; RODENTIA;

EID: 77649337153     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2009.12.009     Document Type: Article

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