The ribosomal RNA gene promoter and adjacent cis-acting DNA sequences govern plasmid DNA partitioning and stable inheritance in the parasitic protozoan Leishmania

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2925-2936

  Boucher, Nathalie ^a   McNicoll, François ^a   Laverdière, Maxime ^a   Rochette, Annie ^a   Chou, Marie Noëlle ^a   Papadopoulou, Barbara ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PLASMID DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA POLYMERASE II;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE NUMBER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTOZOON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRYPANOSOMA; YEAST; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIVISION; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONFORMATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; PROTOZOA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA POLYMERASE I; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 2442651751     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh617     Document Type: Article

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