Characterisation of a new Leishmania META gene and genomic analysis of the META cluster

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 238, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 213-219

  Ramos, Camila S ^a   Franco, Fernando A L ^a   Smith, Deborah F ^b   Uliana, Silvia R B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calpain like proteins; Coding strand switch region; Comparative genomics; Leishmania; Trypanosoma META genes

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN META1; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; META GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTEIN SECRETION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNTENY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CALPAIN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE ORDER; GENES, PROTOZOAN; LEISHMANIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNTENY; TRYPANOSOMA; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEISHMANIA AMAZONENSIS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 4444337666     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.07.037     Document Type: Article

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