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A Tetracycline-Repressible Transactivator System to Study Essential Genes in Malaria Parasites
1 Dec 2012
Abstract excerpt
A major obstacle in analyzing gene function in apicomplexan parasites is the absence of a practical regulatable expression system. Here, we identified functional transcriptional activation domains within Apicomplexan AP2 (ApiAP2) family transcription factors. These ApiAP2 transactivation domains were validated in blood-, liver-, and mosquito-stage parasites and used to create a robust conditional expression...
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