Trypanosoma cruzi: Cloning and characterization of two genes whose expression is up-regulated in metacyclic trypomastigotes

Acta Tropica

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 171-179

  Yamada Ogatta, Sueli Fumie ^a,b   Motta, Maria Cristina ^d   Toma, Helena Keiko ^c   Monteiro Goes, Viviane ^b   Ávila, Andrea Rodrigues ^b   Muniz, Bruno Dallagiovana ^b   Nakamura, Celso ^e   Fragoso, Stenio Perdigão ^b,c   Goldenberg, Samuel ^b,c   Krieger, Marco Aurelio ^b,c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

^b Instituto de Biologia Molecular do Parana   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^e STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Metacyclogenesis; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; METACYCLIN II; METACYCLIN III; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIMASTIGOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DATABASE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; KINETOPLAST; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPOMASTIGOTE; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CLONING, ORGANISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; UP-REGULATION;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 10744229734     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2003.10.018     Document Type: Article

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