Trichinella spiralis thymidylate synthase: cDNA cloning and sequencing, and developmental pattern of mRNA expression

Parasitology

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 209-221

  Dabrowska M ^a   Jagielska, E ^a   Ciesla J ^a   PLucienniczak A ^b   Kwiatowski, J ^c   Wranicz, M ^d   Boireau, P ^e   Rode, W ^a  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^d W STEFA SKI INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Poland)

^e ECOLE NATIONALE VÉTÉRINAIRE D ALFORT   (France)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Gene expression; Histone H.3 like; mRNA; Thymidylate synthase; Trichinella spiralis

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLIC ACID; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODING; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LARVA; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; INVERTEBRATA; PROTOZOA; TRICHINELLA PSEUDOSPIRALIS; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS;

EID: 1442290397     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182003004426     Document Type: Article

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