Leishmania major chromosome 3 contains two long convergent polycistronic gene clusters separated by a tRNA gene

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 4201-4210

  Worthey, E A ^a   Martinez Calvillo, Santiago ^a   Schnaufer, Achim ^a   Aggarwal, Gautam ^a   Cawthra, Jason ^a   Fazelinia, Gholam ^a   Fong, Chris ^a   Fu, Guoliang ^b   Hassebrock, Melissa ^a   Hixson, Greg ^a   Ivens, Alasdair C ^c   Kiser, Patti ^a   Marsolini, Felicia ^a   Rickell, Erica ^a   Salavati, Reza ^a   Sisk, Ellen ^a   Sunkin, Susan M ^a   Stuart, Kenneth ^a,d   Myler, Peter J ^a,d  

^a SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; DNA PRIMASE; HELICASE; NUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPLICEOSOME; TELOMERE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0242349118     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg469     Document Type: Article

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