Two distinct functional spliced leader RNA gene arrays in Leishmania tarentolae are found in several lizard Leishmania species

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1411-1422

  Yu, Michael C ^a   Orlando, T Cristina ^b   Sturm, Nancy R ^a   Zhou, Liang ^a   Saito, R Mako ^a   Floeter Winter, Lucile M ^b   Campbell, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Kinetoplastid protozoa; Leishmania adleri; Leishmania gymnodactyli; Leishmania hoogstraali; Mini exon; Trypanosome

Indexed keywords

SPLICED LEADER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

GENETICS; LEISHMANIASIS; LIZARD; PARASITOLOGY;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAGELLATE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE NUMBER; GENE SEQUENCE; LEISHMANIA TARENTOLAE; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENES, PROTOZOAN; LEISHMANIA; LIZARDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, SPLICED LEADER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA ADLERI; LEISHMANIA GYMNODACTYLI; LEISHMANIA HOOGSTRAALI; LEISHMANIA TARENTOLAE; LIZARD LEISHMANIA; PROTOZOA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0036805404     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7519(02)00131-5     Document Type: Article

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