Vasa-like dead-box rna helicases of schistosoma mansoni

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Skinner, Danielle E ^a   Rinaldi, Gabriel ^a,b   Suttiprapa, Sutas ^c   Mann, Victoria H ^a   Smircich, Pablo ^b   Cogswell, Alexis A ^d   Williams, David L ^d   Brindley, Paul J ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA   (Uruguay)

^c Mahidol University   (Thailand)

^d RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEAD BOX PROTEIN; HELMINTH DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMPHALARIA GLABRATA; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERM CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI VASA LIKE GENE 1; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI VASA LIKE GENE 2; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI VASA LIKE GENE 3; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DNA, HELMINTH; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME, HELMINTH; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 84863693534     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001686     Document Type: Article

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