Efficient Editing of Malaria Parasite Genome Using the CRISPR/Cas9 System

ABSTRACT Malaria parasites are unicellular organisms residing inside the red blood cells, and current methods for editing the parasite genes have been inefficient. The CRISPR/Cas9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats and Cas9 endonuclease-mediated genome editing) system is a ne...

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Main Authors: Cui Zhang, Bo Xiao, Yuanyuan Jiang, Yihua Zhao, Zhenkui Li, Han Gao, Yuan Ling, Jun Wei, Shaoneng Li, Mingke Lu, Xin-zhuan Su, Huiting Cui, Jing Yuan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2014-08-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01414-14