Functional Identification of the Plasmodium Centromere and Generation of a Plasmodium Artificial Chromosome

Cell Host and Microbe

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 245-255

  Iwanaga, Shiroh ^a   Khan, Shahid M ^b   Kaneko, Izumi ^a   Christodoulou, Zoe ^c   Newbold, Chris ^c   Yuda, Masao ^a   Janse, Chris J ^b   Waters, Andrew P ^b  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CELLBIO; MICROBIO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; AT RICH SEQUENCE; BLOOD PARASITE; CELL ELONGATION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMID; PLASMODIUM (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); PLASMODIUM ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TELOMERE;

CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; RODENTIA;

EID: 77749336335     PISSN: 19313128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2010.02.010     Document Type: Article

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