InterB multigenic family, a gene repertoire associated with subterminal chromosome regions of Encephalitozoon cuniculi and conserved in several human-infecting microsporidian species

Current Genetics

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 171-186

  Dia, Ndongo ^a   Lavie, Laurence ^a   Méténier, Guy ^a   Toguebaye, Bhen S ^b   Vivarès, Christian P ^a   Cornillot, Emmanuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

Author keywords

Brachiola algerae; Chromosome extremity; Encephalitozoon cuniculi; KARD 2D PFGE; Multigenic family

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN INTERB; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BRACHIOLA ALGERAE; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENOME; GENOME SIZE; KARYOTYPING; MICROSPORIDA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS; VITTAFORMA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DOGS; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VITTAFORMA;

ANIMALIA; BRACHIOLA; BRACHIOLA ALGERAE; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; MICROSPORIDIA; PISCES; VITTAFORMA;

EID: 33847191368     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-006-0114-x     Document Type: Article

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