Diversity of aspartate carbamoyltransferase genes of Trypanosoma cruzi

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 845-852

  Nara, Takeshi ^a   Hirayama Noguchi, Yoshie ^a   Gao, Guanghan ^a   Murai, Emi ^a   Annoura, Takeshi ^a   Aoki, Takashi ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aspartate carbamoyltransferase; Intra species diversity; Pyrimidine biosynthetic gene cluster; Single stranded DNA conformation polymorphism; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ASPARTATE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; DNA; PYRIMIDINE;

PARASITOLOGY;

AMASTIGOTE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME; EPIMASTIGOTE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PYRIMIDINE SYNTHESIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPOMASTIGOTE;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0037967581     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7519(03)00095-X     Document Type: Article

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