In vivo analysis of translation initiation sites in Plasmodium falciparum

Molecular Biology Reports

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2225-2232

  Patakottu, Balakota Reddy ^a   Singh, Prashant Kumar ^b   Malhotra, Pawan ^b   Chauhan, V S ^b   Patankar, Swati ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ICGEB   (India)

Author keywords

Malaria; Mutational analysis; P. falciparum; Translation initiation sites

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PURINE DERIVATIVE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 86 GENE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REPORTER GENE; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION SITE; TRANSLATION REGULATION; WILD TYPE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VECTORS; HSP90 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; LUCIFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84863854673     PISSN: 03014851     EISSN: 15734978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11033-011-0971-3     Document Type: Article

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