Taming parasites by tailoring them

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue JUL, 2017, Pages

  Ren, Bingjian ^a   Gupta, Nishith ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

CRISPR; Genetic engineering; Genome editing; Parasite manipulation; Protozoan infections

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; GUIDE RNA;

ARTICLE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; GENE EDITING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ANIMAL; APICOMPLEXA; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; KINETOPLASTIDA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTOZOAL INFECTION;

ANIMALS; APICOMPLEXA; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; GENE EDITING; HUMANS; KINETOPLASTIDA; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS;

EID: 85027572046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22352988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2017.00292     Document Type: Article

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