Engineered resistance to Plasmodium falciparum development in transgenic anopheles stephensi

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Isaacs, Alison T ^a   Li, Fengwu ^b   Jasinskiene, Nijole ^c   Chen, Xiaoguang ^d   Nirmala, Xavier ^e,f   Marinotti, Osvaldo ^c   Vinetz, Joseph M ^b   James, Anthony A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^f CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CECROPIN A; GENOMIC DNA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SINGLE CHAIN FRAGMENT VARIABLE ANTIBODY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SYNTHESIS; HEMOLYMPH; HYBRIDIZATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INSECT RESISTANCE; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; MICROINJECTION; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVARY GLAND; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPOROZOITE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSPOSON; VECTOR CONTROL; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SALIVARY GLANDS; SINGLE-CHAIN ANTIBODIES; TRANSGENES;

EID: 79955785238     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002017     Document Type: Article

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