Identification, sequencing and expression of peroxidoxin genes from Leishmania aethiopica

Acta Tropica

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 88-96

  Jirata, Dagim ^a,b   Kuru, Teklu ^a   Genetu, Abebe ^c   Barr, Stephen ^d   Hailu, Asrat ^e   Aseffa, Abraham ^a   Gedamu, Lashitew ^d  

^a ARMAUER HANSEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

^b Debub University   (Ethiopia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR   (Ethiopia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Differential expression; Leishmania aethiopica; Peroxidoxin genes

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; PEROXIDOXIN 1; PEROXIDOXIN 2; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIOXIDANT; DISEASE PREVALENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; LEISHMANIASIS; PARASITIC DISEASE; PROTEIN; RNA; SURVIVAL;

AMASTIGOTE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA AETHIOPICA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL LINE; ETHIOPIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEROXIDASES; PEROXIREDOXINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

LEISHMANIA AETHIOPICA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA;

EID: 33748755649     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2006.08.001     Document Type: Article

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