Surface glycoprotein PSA (GP46) expression during short- and long-term culture of Leishmania chagasi

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 109-117

  Beetham, Jeffrey K ^a   Donelson, John E ^b   Dahlin, Rebecca R ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; mRNA stability; Serially passaged cells; Transcription rate

Indexed keywords

DACTINOMYCIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROMASTIGOTE SURFACE ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSOL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LEISHMANIA CHAGASI; LEISHMANIASIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSPORT; RODENT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

LEISHMANIA DONOVANI CHAGASI; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0141763731     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(03)00197-X     Document Type: Article

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