Initiator and upstream elements in the α2-tubulin promoter of Giardia lamblia

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 157-169

  Elmendorf, Heidi G ^a,b   Singer, Steven M ^a   Pierce, Jessica ^a   Cowan, James ^a   Nash, Theodore E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Giardia lamblia; Initiator element; Promoter; Transcription; Transfection

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; GAMMA TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TROPHOZOITE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUBULIN;

EUKARYOTA; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 0035096389     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(01)00211-0     Document Type: Article

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