The Genome of the Kinetoplastid Parasite, Leishmania major

AC Ivens, CS Peacock, EA Worthey, L Murphy… - Science, 2005 - science.org
Leishmania species cause a spectrum of human diseases in tropical and subtropical
regions of the world. We have sequenced the 36 chromosomes of the 32.8-megabase …

Gene expression in trypanosomatid parasites

S Martínez-Calvillo, JC Vizuet-de-Rueda… - BioMed Research …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The parasites Leishmania spp., Trypanosoma brucei, and Trypanosoma cruzi are the
trypanosomatid protozoa that cause the deadly human diseases leishmaniasis, African …

Comparative genomics of trypanosomatid parasitic protozoa

NM El-Sayed, PJ Myler, G Blandin, M Berriman… - Science, 2005 - science.org
A comparison of gene content and genome architecture of Trypanosoma brucei,
Trypanosoma cruzi, and Leishmania major, three related pathogens with different life cycles …

Operons in eukaryotes

T Blumenthal - Briefings in Functional Genomics, 2004 - academic.oup.com
It was thought that polycistronic transcription is a characteristic of bacteria and archaea,
where many of the genes are clustered in operons composed of two to more than ten genes …

The Trypanosoma cruzi Proteome

JA Atwood III, DB Weatherly, TA Minning, B Bundy… - Science, 2005 - science.org
To complement the sequencing of the three kinetoplastid genomes reported in this issue, we
have undertaken a whole-organism, proteomic analysis of the four life-cycle stages of …

Ribosome profiling reveals translation control as a key mechanism generating differential gene expression in Trypanosoma cruzi

P Smircich, G Eastman, S Bispo, MA Duhagon… - BMC genomics, 2015 - Springer
Background Due to the absence of transcription initiation regulation of protein coding genes
transcribed by RNA polymerase II, posttranscriptional regulation is responsible for the …

Genomic and proteomic expression analysis of Leishmania promastigote and amastigote life stages: the Leishmania genome is constitutively expressed

K Leifso, G Cohen-Freue, N Dogra, A Murray… - Molecular and …, 2007 - Elsevier
Leishmania are protozoan parasites that cause a wide spectrum of clinical diseases in
humans and are a major public health risk in several countries. Leishmania life cycle …

[HTML][HTML] Glucosylated hydroxymethyluracil, DNA base J, prevents transcriptional readthrough in Leishmania

HGAM van Luenen, C Farris, S Jan, PA Genest… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Some Ts in nuclear DNA of trypanosomes and Leishmania are hydroxylated and
glucosylated to yield base J (β-D-glucosyl-hydroxymethyluracil). In Leishmania, about 99 …

From Stop to Start: Tandem Gene Arrangement, Copy Number and Trans-Splicing Sites in the Dinoflagellate Amphidinium carterae

TR Bachvaroff, AR Place - PLoS One, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Dinoflagellate genomes present unique challenges including large size, modified DNA
bases, lack of nucleosomes, and condensed chromosomes. EST sequencing has shown …

Analysis of the Leishmania donovani transcriptome reveals an ordered progression of transient and permanent changes in gene expression during differentiation

A Saxena, T Lahav, N Holland, G Aggarwal… - Molecular and …, 2007 - Elsevier
Leishmania donovani is an intracellular protozoan parasite that causes kala-azar in
humans. During infection the extracellular insect forms (promastigotes) undergo rapid …