Creation of Null/+ mutants of the alpha-tubulin gene in Leishmania enriettii by gene cluster deletion

Tubulins are abundant structural proteins in the Leishmania parasite, and tubulin genes are examples of highly expressed genes, which are present in multiple copies arranged in tandem repeats. Functional analysis of such multicopy genes using genetic manipulation has not yet been possible. Here we d...

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