Cloning and expression of transgenes using linear vectors in Trypanosoma cruzi

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 447-456

  Curto, María de los Ángeles ^a   Lorenzi, Hernán A ^a   Moraes Barros, Roberto R ^b   Souza, Renata T ^b   Levin, Mariano J ^a,c   Da Silveira, José Franco ^b   Schijman, Alejandro G ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial chromosomes; Functional genetic complementation; GFP; Linear vectors; Ornithine decarboxylase; Stable transfection; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PLASMID VECTOR;

CHAGAS DISEASE; CHROMOSOME; CLONE; DISEASE VECTOR; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; PROTOZOAN; VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITHIDIA FASCICULATA; DECARBOXILASE GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORNITHINE GENE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSGENE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM;

CRITHIDIA FASCICULATA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICE; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84902130602     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: 18790135     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2014.03.009     Document Type: Article

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