Alternative trans-splicing of the Trypanosoma cruzi LYT1 gene transcript results in compartmental and functional switch for the encoded protein

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1559-1567

  Benabdellah, Karim ^a   González Rey, Elena ^a   González, Antonio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE PARASITOLOGÍA Y BIOMEDICINA LÓPEZ NEYRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEMOLYSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PH; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TRANS SPLICING; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFECTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VIRULENCE;

TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 34548317153     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05892.x     Document Type: Article

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