A genome-wide over-expression screen identifies genes involved in phagocytosis in the human protozoan parasite, entamoeba histolytica

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  King, Ada V ^a   Welter, Brenda H ^a   Koushik, Amrita B ^a   Gordon, Lindsay N ^a,b   Temesvari, Lesly A ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PROFILIN; TUBERCIDIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLASMID; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TROPHOZOITE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CYCLOHEXIMIDE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFECTION; TUBERCIDIN;

EID: 84865050880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043025     Document Type: Article

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