Trypanosoma cruzi: Analysis of the complete PUF RNA-binding protein family

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 112-124

  Caro, Florence ^a   Bercovich, Natalia ^a   Atorrasagasti, Catalina ^a   Levin, Mariano J ^a   Vázquez, Martín P ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

aa; amino acids; Bioinformatics analysis; Chagas disease; hidden Markov model; HMM; nanos response element; NRE; open reading frame; ORF; Post transcriptional regulation; TriTryp; Trypanosoma brucei, Trypanosoma cruzi, Leishmania major; untranslated region; UTR; Yeast three hybrids

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN TCPUF1; PROTEIN TCPUF3; PROTEIN TCPUF5; PROTEIN TCPUF8; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMICS; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EUKARYOTA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 33646186050     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2005.12.015     Document Type: Article

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