Lights and shadows on gene organization and regulation of gene expression in Leishmania

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2069-2085

  Requena, Jose M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Leishmania; mRNA stability; Polycistronic transcription; Post transcriptional regulation; Review; RNA binding proteins; Trans splicing; Translational control; Trypanosoma; Trypanosomatids

Indexed keywords

KINETOPLASTIDA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

MESSENGER RNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL RNA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING;

ANIMALS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN;

EID: 79959747779     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/3840     Document Type: Review

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