PFPI-like genes are expressed in Leishmania major but are pseudogenes in other Leishmania species

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 260, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 47-54

  Eschenlauer, Sylvain C P ^a   Coombs, Graham H ^a   Mottram, Jeremy C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lateral gene transfer; Leishmania; Peptidase; Protease; Pseudogene; Pyrococcus

Indexed keywords

BRINASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMASTIGOTE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATION; EXTRACT; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PSEUDOGENE; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; RNA SPLICING; STOP CODON; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; GENES, PROTOZOAN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PSEUDOGENES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 33745047785     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00303.x     Document Type: Article

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