Posttranscriptional mechanisms involved in the control of expression of the stage-specific GP82 surface glycoprotein in Trypanosoma cruzi

Acta Tropica

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 152-158

  Gentil, Luciana Girotto ^a   Cordero, Esteban Maurício ^a   Carmo, Mirian Silva do ^a   Santos, Márcia Regina Machado dos ^a   Silveira, José Franco da ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Metacyclic trypomastigote; Polysomes; Posttranscriptional control; Stage specific surface glycoprotein; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

CYCLOHEXIMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 82; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; PARASITE; PROTEIN; PROTIST; RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; EPIMASTIGOTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HALF LIFE TIME; HOST CELL; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYSOME; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSLATION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPOMASTIGOTE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; POLYRIBOSOMES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA STABILITY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 57849129897     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2008.10.006     Document Type: Article

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