Alpha tubulin genes from Leishmania braziliensis: Genomic organization, gene structure and insights on their expression

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ramírez, César A ^a,b   Requena, José M ^b   Puerta, Concepción J ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

tubulin; Expression; Leishmania braziliensis; Untranslated region

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; MESSENGER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALPHA TUBULIN GENE; AMASTIGOTE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME ANALYSIS; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PROMASTIGOTE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LOCI; GENOMICS; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TUBULIN;

LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR;

EID: 84879824453     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-454     Document Type: Article

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