Genomic organization and gene expression in a chromosomal region of Leishmania major

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 233-243

  Monnerat, Séverine ^a   Martinez Calvillo, Santiago ^b   Worthey, Elizabeth ^b   Myler, Peter J ^b,c   Stuart, Kenneth D ^b,c   Fasel, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Chr; Chromosome; Interfering RNA; Leishmania; Leishmania genome network; Leishmania major Friedlin; LGN; LmjF; Nt; Nucleotide; Open reading frames; ORFs; RE; Replicative form; Restriction enzyme; RF; RNAi; SL; Splice leader; Trypanosomatidae; Untranslated region; UTR

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHROMOSOME; CISTRON; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID; DNA STRAND; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; PSEUDOGENES; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

LEISHMANIA MAJOR; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 1542285212     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2003.12.004     Document Type: Article

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