The genome of the protist parasite Entamoeba histolytica

Nature

Volumn 433, Issue 7028, 2005, Pages 865-868

  Loftus, Brendan ^a   Anderson, Iain ^a   Davies, Rob ^b   Alsmark, U Cecilia M ^c   Samuelson, John ^d   Amedeo, Paolo ^a   Roncaglia, Paola ^a   Berriman, Matt ^b   Hirt, Robert P ^c   Mann, Barbara J ^e   Nozaki, Tomo ^f   Suh, Bernard ^a   Pop, Mihal ^a   Duchene, Michael ^g   Ackers, John ^h   Tannich, Egbert ⁱ   Leippe, Matthias ^j   Hofer, Margit ^g   Bruchhaus, Iris ⁱ   Willhoeft, Ute ⁱ   Bhattacharya, Alok ^k   Chillingworth, Tracoy ^b   Churcher, Carol ^b   Hance, Zahra ^b   Harris, Barbara ^b   Harris, David ^b   Jagels, Kay ^b   Moule, Sharon ^b   Mungall, Karen ^b   Ormond, Doug ^b   Squares, Rob ^b   Whitehead, Sally ^b   Quail, Michael A ^b   Rabbinowitsch, Ester ^b   Norbertczak, Halina ^b   Price, Claire ^b   Wang, Zheng ^a   Guillén, Nancy ^l   Gilchrist, Carol ^e   Stroup, Suzanne E ^e   Bhattacharya, Sudha ^k   Lohia, Anuradha ^m   Foster, Peter G ⁿ   Sicheritz Ponten, Thomas ^o   Weber, Christian ^l   Singh, Upinder ^p   Mukherjee, Chandrama ^m   El Sayed, Najib M ^a   Petri Jr , William A ^e   Clark, C Graham ^h   Embley, T Martin ^c   Barrell, Bart ^b   Fraser, Claire M ^a   Hall, Neil ^a,b   more..

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^g MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^h LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^k JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^l INSERM   (France)

^m BOSE INSTITUTE   (India)

ⁿ DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^o TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^p STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ENZYMES; GENE TRANSFER; METABOLISM; RNA;

CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENS;

GENES;

ACETYL COENZYME A CARBOXYLASE; ARF PROTEIN; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CARBOXYLTRANSFERASE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; DIACYLGLYCEROL; FLAVOPROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; HEMOLYSIN; INOSITOL 1,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROUS OXIDE; PEROXIREDOXIN; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 4,5 BISPHOSPHATE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RAS PROTEIN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRANSFER RNA; UNINDEXED DRUG;

GENOME;

ADAPTATION; AMEBIASIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FERMENTATION; GENE LOSS; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GLYCOLYSIS; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; NITROSATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE CYCLE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PARASITE; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FERMENTATION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GLYCOLYSIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARASITES; PHYLOGENY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE;

EID: 14544294428     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03291     Document Type: Article

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