'Transient' genetic suppression facilitates generation of hexose transporter null mutants in Leishmania mexicana

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 412-429

  Feng, Xiuhong ^a   Rodriguez Contreras, Dayana ^a   Polley, Tamsen ^a   Lye, Lon Fye ^b   Scott, David ^b   Burchmore, Richard J S ^c   Beverley, Stephen M ^b   Landfear, Scott M ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAGELLUM; GENE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOSS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PIFTC3 GENE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

LEISHMANIA MEXICANA;

EID: 84872409819     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12106     Document Type: Article

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