In silico analysis of EST and genomic sequences allowed the prediction of cis-regulatory elements for Entamoeba histolytica mRNA polyadenylation

Computational Biology and Chemistry

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 256-263

  Zamorano, Absalom ^a   López Camarillo, César ^b   Orozco, Esther ^c   Weber, Christian ^d,e   Guillen, Nancy ^d,e   Marchat, Laurence A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE LA CIUDAD DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^e INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics analysis; Cis regulatory elements; Pre mRNA 3 end processing; Protozoan parasite

Indexed keywords

CELLS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION;

CIS-REGULATORY ELEMENTS; CIS-REGULATORY SEQUENCES; COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSES; ELSEVIER (CO); ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENOMIC SEQUENCING; IN-SILICO; MESSENGER RNA (MRNA); MOLECULAR ORGANIZATIONS; MULTI PROTEIN COMPLEXES; NUCLEAR EXPORT; POLY(A); POLYADENYLATION; PRE MRNA; PROTOZOAN PARASITES; SPECIFIC SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; TRANSLATABILITY; UNTRANSLATED REGION (UTR);

FORECASTING;

MESSENGER RNA; POLYADENYLIC ACID; PROTOZOAL RNA; RNA PRECURSOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYADENYLATION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RNA PROCESSING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENOME; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLY A; POLYADENYLATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA 3' END PROCESSING; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EUKARYOTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 45849136307     PISSN: 14769271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2008.03.019     Document Type: Article

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