Cloning, characterization and subcellular localization of a Trypanosoma cruzi argonaute protein defining a new subfamily distinctive of trypanosomatids

Gene

Volumn 466, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 26-35

  Garcia Silva, Maria R ^a   Tosar, Juan P ^a   Frugier, Magali ^b   Pantano, Sergio ^a   Bonilla, Braulio ^a   Esteban, Luis ^c   Serra, Esteban ^c   Rovira, Carlos ^d   Robello, Carlos ^a,e   Cayota, Alfonso ^a,e  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE MONTEVIDEO   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular de Rosario   (Argentina)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Argonaute phylogeny; Piwi like protein; Protozoan parasites; Small RNAs

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EUKARYOTA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 77956226465     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2010.06.012     Document Type: Article

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