Malaria and RNAi

Malaria is still a major parasitic disease despite efforts spanning more than a century to eradicate or control it because of the poor understanding of the functions of most of the malaria parasite proteins. To understand the gene function in variety of organisms and to inhibit the gene expression on the level of single genes, gene families and the entire genome; RNA interference (RNAi) has emerged as a powerful and important tool. The major goals of this study is to develop RNAi technologies for functional genomic studies in malaria and follow it, for next studies in future, is to understand molecular mechanisms of malaria drugs and host-parasite interactions.

کلیدواژه ها:

Malaria Parasite ، Plasmodium falciparum ، RNAi