Expression of the glycolytic enzymes enolase and lactate dehydrogenase during the early phase of Toxoplasma differentiation is regulated by an intron retention mechanism

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1159-1175

  Lunghi, Matteo ^a   Galizi, Roberto ^a   Magini, Alessandro ^a   Carruthers, Vern B ^b   Di Cristina, Manlio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENOLASE; GENOMIC DNA; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; ISOENZYME;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA CONTAMINATION; ENO1 GENE; ENO2 GENE; ENZYME MECHANISM; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON RETENTION; LDH1 GENE; LDH2 GENE; MARKER GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; ANIMAL; ANIMAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GLYCOLYSIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTRON; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; TOXOPLASMA;

TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; XENOX;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GLYCOLYSIS; HUMANS; INTRONS; ISOENZYMES; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MICE; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84930766076     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12999     Document Type: Article

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