Genome sequencing of the lizard parasite Leishmania tarentolae reveals loss of genes associated to the intracellular stage of human pathogenic species

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1131-1147

  Raymond, Frédéric ^a   Boisvert, Sébastien ^a   Roy, Gaétan ^a   Ritt, Jean Franois ^a   Légaré, Danielle ^a   Isnard, Amandine ^c   Stanke, Mario ^d   Olivier, Martin ^c   Tremblay, Michel J ^a,b   Papadopoulou, Barbara ^a,b   Ouellette, Marc ^a,b   Corbeil, Jacques ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; PROMASTIGOTE SURFACE ANTIGEN PSA31C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC METALLO PEPTIDASE SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN GP63;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; AMASTIGOTE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GENE; GENE PRODUCT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TARENTOLAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PTR1 GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES COMPARISON; SYNTENY;

ANIMALS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GENOMICS; LEISHMANIA; LIZARDS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYNTENY;

HEXAPODA; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TARENTOLAE; MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA; PSITTACIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 84856934639     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr834     Document Type: Article

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