Cell homeostasis in a Leishmania major mutant overexpressing the spliced leader RNA is maintained by an increased proteolytic activity

International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1661-1671

  Toledo, Juliano S ^a   Ferreira, Tiago R ^a   Defina, Tânia P A ^a   Dossin, Fernando de M ^b   Beattie, Kenneth A ^c   Lamont, Douglas J ^c   Cloutier, Serge ^d   Papadopoulou, Barbara ^d   Schenkman, Sergio ^e   Cruz, Angela K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Institute Pasteur Korea   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^d LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Gene expression control; Leishmania; Miniexon; SL RNA; Virulence

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; SPLICED LEADER RNA; UBIQUITIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID; CYTOSKELETON; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LYSOSOME; NONHUMAN; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MAMMALIA;

EID: 77956188750     PISSN: 13572725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2010.06.013     Document Type: Article

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