The transcriptome of Leishmania major in the axenic promastigote stage: Transcript annotation and relative expression levels by RNA-seq

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Rastrojo, Alberto ^a   Carrasco Ramiro, Fernando ^a   Martín, Diana ^a   Crespillo, Antonio ^a   Reguera, Rosa M ^b   Aguado, Begoña ^a   Requena, Jose M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gene Expression; Leishmania; mRNAs; RNA seq; Transcript annotation; Trypanosomatids

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSFER RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TARENTOLAE; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; START CODON; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYADENYLATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 84875689170     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-223     Document Type: Article

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