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Details of the target gene |
Gene Model of Rodent Parasite |
PBANKA_1450200
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Gene Model P. falciparum ortholog |
PF3D7_1235600
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Gene product | Serine hydroxymethyltransferase, putative |
Gene product: Alternative name | SHMT |
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Details of the genetic modification |
Short description of the mutation | The P. berghei shmt gene replaced with the P. vivax shmt gene (PVX_100730) |
Inducable system used | No |
Short description of the conditional mutagenesis | Not available |
Additional remarks inducable system |
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Type of plasmid/construct | (Linear) plasmid double cross-over |
PlasmoGEM (Sanger) construct/vector used | No |
Modified PlasmoGEM construct/vector used | No
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Plasmid/construct map |
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Plasmid/construct sequence |
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Restriction sites to linearize plasmid |
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Selectable marker used to select the mutant parasite | tgdhfr |
Promoter of the selectable marker | eef1a |
Selection (positive) procedure | pyrimethamine |
Selection (negative) procedure | No |
Additional remarks genetic modification | Plasmids for the study of gene knockout in Plasmodium berghei ANKA strain were constructed based on the sequence of pL0017 vector (The Malaria Research and Reference Reagent Resource Center; MR4), which contains Toxoplasma gondii dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase (Tgdhfr/ts) and green fluorescent protein gene (gfp) expression cassettes for pyrimethamine (PYR) selection and fluorescence detection of transfected parasites. The 553 and 1,018 bp of PCR amplicons, corresponding to 5′- and 3′UTR of Pbcshmt (PBANKA_145020) respectively, were produced initially from P. berghei genomic DNA (gDNA). The 5′UTR fragment was inserted into pL0017 at Hind III site, while the 3′UTR fragment was inserted at Kpn I and Sac II sites respectively. This construct, pL0017_Δshmt, was used in the knockout study. For allelic replacement construct, gfp in pL0017_Δshmt was replaced with Plasmodium vivax cshmt (Pvcshmt; PVX_100730) and named pL0017_(Pv)Δshmt. |
Additional remarks selection procedure | |
Primer information: Primers used for amplification of the target sequences 
Primer information: Primers used for amplification of the target sequences
Sequence Primer 1 | |
Additional information primer 1 | |
Sequence Primer 2 | |
Additional information primer 2 | |
Sequence Primer 3 | |
Additional information primer 3 | |
Sequence Primer 4 | |
Additional information primer 4 | |
Sequence Primer 5 | |
Additional information primer 5 | |
Sequence Primer 6 | |
Additional information primer 6 | |
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