Repertoire, genealogy and genomic organization of cruzipain and homologous genes in Trypanosoma cruzi, T. cruzi-like and other Trypanosome species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Lima, Luciana ^a   Ortiz, Paola A ^a   da Silva, Flávia Maia ^a   Alves, João Marcelo P ^a,b   Serrano, Myrna G ^b   Cortez, Alane P ^a,c   Alfieri, Silvia C ^a   Buck, Gregory A ^b   Teixeira, Marta M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUZIPAIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUZIPAIN GENE; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; GENEALOGY; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI MARINKELLEI; TRYPANOSOMA DIONISII; TRYPANOSOMA RANGELI; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNTENY; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84862021633     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038385     Document Type: Article

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