Summary: Members of a Large Retroposon Family
Are Determinants of Post-Transcriptional
Gene Expression in Leishmania
Fre´de´ric Bringaud1,2[*
, Michaela Mu¨ller3,4[
, Gustavo Coutinho Cerqueira5,6
, Martin Smith3,4
, Annie Rochette3,4
,
Najib M. A. El-Sayed5,7,8
, Barbara Papadopoulou3,4*
, Elodie Ghedin5,9*
1 Laboratoire de Ge´nomique Fonctionnelle des Trypanosomatides, Universite´ Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France, 2 UMR-5234 CNRS, Bordeaux, France, 3 Infectious
Diseases Research Center, Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite´ Laval Research Center, Quebec, Canada, 4 Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University,
Quebec, Canada, 5 The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, 6 Departamento de Bioquimica e Imunologica, Universidade Federal de
Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 7 Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, 8
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, 9 Division of Infectious Diseases,
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Trypanosomatids are unicellular protists that include the human pathogens Leishmania spp. (leishmaniasis),
Trypanosoma brucei (sleeping sickness), and Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas disease). Analysis of their recently completed

Source: Arnold, Jonathan - Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center & Department of Genetics, University of Georgia

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