Development of the piggyBac transposable system for Plasmodium berghei and its application for random mutagenesis in malaria parasites

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Fonager, Jannik ^a   Franke Fayard, Blandine M D ^a   Adams, John H ^b   Ramesar, Jai ^a   Klop, Onny ^a   Khan, Shahid M ^a   Janse, Chris J ^a   Waters, Andrew P ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; TRANSPOSASE; PROTOZOAL RNA;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIFE CYCLE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROMOTER REGION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RODENTIA;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOMICS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFECTION; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 79953078900     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-155     Document Type: Article

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