Novel Features of a PIWI-Like Protein Homolog in the Parasitic Protozoan Leishmania

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Padmanabhan, Prasad K ^a   Dumas, Carole ^a   Samant, Mukesh ^a   Rochette, Annie ^b   Simard, Martin J ^c   Papadopoulou, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b INRS INSTITUT ARMAND FRAPPIER   (Canada)

^c LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIWI PROTEIN;

AMASTIGOTE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PIWI GENE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS; MICE; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MAMMALIA; MUS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 84871375161     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052612     Document Type: Article

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