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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America1989

Transfection of Leishmania enriettii and expression of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene.

A Laban, D F Wirth

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 1989. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers.

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48citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

48 citing papers in PubMed, 116 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Characterization of an Atypical eIF4E Ortholog inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

A LabanDepartment of Tropical Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115.
D F Wirth
Harvard University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report a transient expression transfection system in Leishmania enriettii. A hybrid gene containing an intergenic region of the alpha-tubulin cluster and the bacterial chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT; EC 2.3.1.28) gene is expressed after transfection of L. enriettii with the hybrid plasmid. The expression of the CAT gene is dependent on the presence of sequences from the alpha-tubulin gene. The hybrid gene is also active in Leishmania braziliensis and Leishmania major.

Indexed as

Genes, BacterialTransfectionAnimalsBase SequenceChloramphenicol O-AcetyltransferaseChromosome DeletionGene ExpressionGenesLeishmania mexicanaMolecular Sequence DataPlasmidsRecombinant ProteinsTranscription, GeneticTubulinChloramphenicol O-AcetyltransferaseRecombinant ProteinsTubulin

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PMID2594753
PMCPMC298445
OpenAlexW2005624950

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