Polymorphic and differential expression of the Trypanosoma cruzi alleles containing universal minicircle binding protein

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 341, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 382-390

  Coelho, Elielton R ^a   De Carvalho Rodrigues, Deivid ^a   Ürményi, Turán P ^a   Rondinelli, Edson ^a   Silva, Rosane ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Allelic polymorphism; Gene expression; kDNA; Proteasome; Trans splicing and polyadenylation sites; Trypanosoma cruzi; Universal minicircle sequence binding protein

Indexed keywords

KINETOPLAST DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, KINETOPLAST; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPORATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFECTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 31444455372     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.12.189     Document Type: Article

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