Conserved repeats in the kinetoplast maxicircle divergent region of Leishmania sp. and Leptomonas seymouri

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 276, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 322-333

  Flegontov, Pavel N ^a   Guo, Qiang ^a   Ren, Lina ^a   Strelkova, Margarita V ^b   Kolesnikov, Alexander A ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b Martsinovsky Institute of Medical Parasitology and Tropical Medicine   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Divergent region; Kinetoplast maxicircle; Leishmania; Leptomonas; Palindrome

Indexed keywords

PALINDROMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; KINETOPLAST; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA CHAGASI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEPTOMONAS COLLOSOMA; LEPTOMONAS NEYMOURI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, KINETOPLAST; GENES, PROTOZOAN; LEISHMANIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPLICATION ORIGIN; RNA, GUIDE; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMATINA;

CRITHIDIA ONCOPELTI; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI CHAGASI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIA SP.; LEISHMANIA TARENTOLAE; LEISHMANIA TURANICA; LEPTOMONAS; LEPTOMONAS COLLOSOMA; LEPTOMONAS SEYMOURI; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 33748314536     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-006-0145-5     Document Type: Article

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