Characterisation of three chromosomal ends of Leishmania major reveals transcriptional activity across arrays of reiterated and unique sequences

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 71-80

  Pedrosa, André L ^a   Ruiz, Jeronimo C ^a   Tosi, Luiz R O ^a   Cruz, Angela K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Leishmania major; LST R378; PFGE; Reiterated sequences; Size polymorphic regions; Telomeric region

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 20; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME ARM; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COSMIDS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMIC LIBRARY; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, PROTOZOAN; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0035946352     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(01)00237-7     Document Type: Article

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