Versatile control of Plasmodium falciparum gene expression with an inducible protein-RNA interaction

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Goldfless, Stephen J ^a   Wagner, Jeffrey C ^a   Niles, Jacquin C ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOQUINOLINE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ZINC FINGER NUCLEASE; APTAMER;

DRUG DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PARASITE; PROTEIN; PROTOZOAN; RNA;

ANTIMALARIAL DRUG RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; TRANSLATION REGULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84923378321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6329     Document Type: Article

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