Retention and Loss of RNA interference pathways in trypanosomatid protozoans

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Lye, Lon Fye ^a   Owens, Katherine ^a   Shi, Huafang ^b   Murta, Silvane M F ^a   Vieira, Ana Carolina ^c   Turco, Salvatore J ^c   Tschudi, Christian ^b   Ullu, Elisabetta ^b   Beverley, Stephen M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DICER; HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; LIPOPHOSPHOGLYCAN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL SPORE; FLAGELLUM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIASIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RNA INTERFERENCE; GENE; GENETICS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; VIRUS;

EUKARYOTA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE; VIANNIA;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRYPANOSOMATINA; VIRUSES;

EID: 78449245604     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1001161     Document Type: Article

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