A new developmentally regulated gene family in Leishmania amastigotes encoding a homolog of amastin surface proteins

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 345-357

  Wu, Ying ^a   El Fakhry, Youssef ^a   Sereno, Denis ^a   Tamar, Samira ^a   Papadopoulou, Barbara ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

3' UTR; Amastin gene homolog; Leishmania; Membrane protein; Stage specific regulation

Indexed keywords

AMASTIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RECOMBINANT DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMASTIGOTE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ASSAY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LEISHMANIA; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0033727540     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(00)00290-5     Document Type: Article

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