Axenic leishmania amazonensis promastigotes sense both the external and internal arginine pool distinctly regulating the two transporter-coding genes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Castilho Martins, Emerson A ^a   da Silva, Maria Fernanda Laranjeira ^a   dos Santos, Marcos G ^a   Muxel, Sandra M ^a   Floeter Winter, Lucile M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGINASE; ARGININE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN META1; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARRIER PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AAP3 GENE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DOSAGE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH CURVE; KNOCKOUT GENE; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA STABILITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIASIS; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

LEISHMANIA AMAZONENSIS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI;

ARGINASE; ARGININE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIASIS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 81155137323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027818     Document Type: Article

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