Delivery of a functional anti-trypanosome nanobody in different tsetse fly tissues via a bacterial symbiont, sodalis glossinidius

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  De Vooght, Linda ^a   Caljon, Guy ^a,b,c   De Ridder, Karin ^a   Van Den Abbeele, Jan ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Functional; (3 10); Delivery; Glossina; In vivo; Midgut; Nanobody; Paratransgenesis; Recombinant; Sodalis glossinidius; Symbiont

Indexed keywords

ANTITRYPANOSOMAL AGENT; NANOBODY; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GLOSSINA; GLOSSINA MORSITANS MORSITANS; GLOSSINIDAE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; PARATRANSGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SODALIS GLOSSINIDIUS; SYMBIONT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRYPANOSOMA; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DISEASE CARRIER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECT VECTORS; SINGLE-DOMAIN ANTIBODIES; SYMBIOSIS; TRYPANOSOMA; TSETSE FLIES;

EID: 84964316070     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12934-014-0156-6     Document Type: Article

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