Alternatively spliced transcripts and novel pseudogenes of the Plasmodium falciparum resistance-associated locus pfcrt detected in East African malaria patients

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 116-123

  Gadalla, Nahla B ^a,b,i   Malmberg, Maja ^c,j   Adam, Ishag ^d   Oguike, Mary C ^a   Beshir, Khalid ^a   Elzaki, Salah Eldin ^b   Mukhtar, Izdihar ^e   Gadalla, Amal A ^b   Warhurst, David C ^a   Ngasala, Billy ^f   Mårtensson, Andreas ^c   El Sayed, Badria B ^b   Gil, J Pedro ^c,g,h   Sutherland, Colin J ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b TROPICAL MEDICINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Sudan)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^e FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Sudan)

^f MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^h BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^j SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

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Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Chloroquine resistance transporters; Malaria

Indexed keywords

AMINOQUINOLINE DERIVATIVE; CHLOROQUINE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; CARRIER PROTEIN; PFCRT PROTEIN, PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL RNA; RNA PRECURSOR;

AFRICA; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CODON; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DRIED BLOOD SPOT TESTING; EAST AFRICAN; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRON; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOGENE; RNA EXTRACTION; SUDAN; TANZANIA; ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHILD; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; PSEUDOGENES; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUDAN; TANZANIA;

EID: 84928312956     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dku358     Document Type: Article

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