Evidence supporting a major promoter in the Trypanosoma cruzi rRNA gene

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 225, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 221-225

  Figueroa Angulo, Elisa ^a   Martínez Calvillo, Santiago ^a,b   López Villaseñor, Imelda ^a   Hernández, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

RNA polymerase I; rRNA gene promoter; Transcription; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; RIBOSOME RNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIMASTIGOTE; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

FELIS CATUS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VECTORS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENES, REPORTER; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 1642264255     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00516-0     Document Type: Article

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