Homology, paralogy and function of DGF-1, a highly dispersed Trypanosoma cruzi specific gene family and its implications for information entropy of its encoded proteins

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-31

  Kawashita, Silvia Y ^a   da Silva, Claudio V ^a,c   Mortara, Renato A ^a   Burleigh, Barbara A ^b   Briones, Marcelo R S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Codon usage; Dispersed gene family 1; Evolution; Integrin like genes; Shannon entropy; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BETA7 INTEGRIN; DISPERSED GENE FAMILY 1 PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOTINYLATION; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE; GENEALOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPOMASTIGOTE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CODON; GENE ORDER; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; INTEGRIN BETA CHAINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

MAMMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 60649107568     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2008.12.010     Document Type: Article

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