The switch region of Leishmania major chromosome 1 is not required for mitotic stability or gene expression, but appears to be essential

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 30, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 3692-3697

  Dubessay, Pascal ^a   Ravel, Christophe ^a   Bastien, Patrick ^a   Crobu, Lucien ^a   Dedet, Jean Pierre ^a   Pagès, Michel ^a   Blaineau, Christine ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HYPOTHESIS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRISOMY; TYPE STRAIN;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MITOSIS; MUTATION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

INSERTION SEQUENCES; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0036712064     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf510     Document Type: Article

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