Cloning of the repertoire of individual Plasmodium falciparum var genes using transformation associated recombination (TAR)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Gaida, Annette ^a,b   Becker, Marion M ^c   Schmid, Christoph D ^a,b   Bühlmann, Tobias ^a,b   Louis, Edward J ^c   Beck, Hans Peter ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1, PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSFORMATION ASSOCIATED RECOMBINATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VAR GENE; YEAST CELL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LIBRARY; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 79952357442     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017782     Document Type: Article

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