Stage-specific expression of Trypanosoma cruzi trans-sialidase involves highly conserved 3′ untranslated regions

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 283, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 182-188

  Jäger, Adriana V ^a,b   Muiá, Romina P ^a   Campetella, Oscar ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOTECNOLÓGICAS   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN MARTÍN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

3 UTRs; Posttranscriptional control; Stage specific expression; trans sialidase; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SIALIDASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; EPIMASTIGOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPOMASTIGOTE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; GLYCOPROTEINS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURAMINIDASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 43549112527     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01170.x     Document Type: Article

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