FLP/FRT-mediated conditional mutagenesis in pre-erythrocytic stages of Plasmodium berghei

Nature Protocols

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1412-1428

  Lacroix, Céline ^a   Giovannini, Donatella ^a   Combe, Audrey ^a   Bargieri, Daniel Y ^a   Späth, Stephan ^a   Panchal, Dhruv ^b   Tawk, Lina ^c   Thiberge, Sabine ^a   Carvalho, Teresa Gil ^a   Barale, Jean Christophe ^c   Bhanot, Purnima ^b   Ménard, Robert ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MICROORGANISM PROTEIN; PYRIMETHAMINE; RECOMBINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA FLANKING REGION; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INACTIVATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RAT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPOROZOITE; WILD TYPE; YEAST;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPOROZOITES;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM PARASITES; RODENTIA;

EID: 80052416717     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2011.363     Document Type: Article

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