Putative cis-regulatory elements associated with heat shock genes activated during excystation of Cryptosporidium parvum

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Cohn, Benjamin ^a   Manque, Patricio ^a,b   Lara, Ana M ^a   Serrano, Myrna ^a   Sheth, Nihar ^a   Buck, Gregory ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC REGULATION; GENITAL SYSTEM; HEAT SHOCK GENE; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; METABOLISM; OOCYST; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPOROZOITE;

ANIMALIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; PROTOZOA;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; MODELS, GENETIC; OOCYSTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPOROZOITES;

EID: 77949805978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009512     Document Type: Article

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