In silico identification of conserved intercoding sequences in Leishmania genomes: Unraveling putative cis-regulatory elements

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 140-150

  Vasconcelos, E J R ^a   Terrao M C ^a   Ruiz, J C ^b   Vencio R Z N ^a   Cruz, A K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Leishmania; Post transcriptional gene regulation; Putative regulatory motifs; UTRs

Indexed keywords

AMASTIGOTE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONSERVED CODING SEQUENCE; CONSERVED INTERCODING SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTOZOAL GENETICS;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 84859594359     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: 18729428     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2012.02.009     Document Type: Article

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