High-resolution characterization of toxoplasma gondii transcriptome with a massive parallel sequencing method

DNA Research

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 233-243

  Yamagishi, Junya ^a   Wakaguri, Hiroyuki ^b   Ueno, Akio ^a   Goo, Youn Kyoung ^a   Tolba, Mohammed ^b   Igarashi, Makoto ^a   Nishikawa, Yoshifumi ^a   Sugimoto, Chihiro ^c   Sugano, Sumio ^b   Suzuki, Yutaka ^b   Watanabe, Junichi ^b   Xuan, Xuenan ^a  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

core promoter; Toxoplasma; transcriptome; tss seq

Indexed keywords

THYMIDINE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; TACHYZOITE; TATA BOX; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TATA BOX; TOXOPLASMA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 77955857011     PISSN: 13402838     EISSN: 17561663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dsq013     Document Type: Article

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