Tricks in Plasmodium's molecular repertoire - Escaping 3'UTR excision-based conditional silencing of the chloroquine resistance transporter gene

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 969-974

  Ecker, Andrea ^a   Lewis, Rebecca E ^a   Ekland, Eric H ^a   Jayabalasingham, Bamini ^a   Fidock, David A ^a  

^a College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

3'UTR; Conditional knockdown; PfCRT; Plasmodium berghei; RACE; Sporozoite

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE RESISTANCE TRANSPORTER; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DISEASE RESISTANCE; DNA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PARASITE; RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHLOROQUINE RESISTANCE TRANSPORTER GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STOP CODON;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CHLOROQUINE; CULICIDAE; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE SILENCING; MALARIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84868137442     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: 18790135     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2012.09.003     Document Type: Article

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