The abundant polyadenylated transcript 2 DNA sequence of the pathogenic protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica represents a nonautonomous non-long-terminal-repeat retrotransposon-like element which is absent in the closely related nonpathogenic species Entamoeba dispar

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 6798-6804

  Willhoeft, Ute ^a   Buß, Heidrun ^a   Tannich, Egbert ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

POLYADENYLATED RNA; PROTEIN EHAPT2; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; PYRIMIDINE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYADENYLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLY A; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0036893116     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.70.12.6798-6804.2002     Document Type: Article

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