Publication Date:
2005-07-05
Description:
We report the genome sequence of Theileria parva, an apicomplexan pathogen causing economic losses to smallholder farmers in Africa. The parasite chromosomes exhibit limited conservation of gene synteny with Plasmodium falciparum, and its plastid-like genome represents the first example where all apicoplast genes are encoded on one DNA strand. We tentatively identify proteins that facilitate parasite segregation during host cell cytokinesis and contribute to persistent infection of transformed host cells. Several biosynthetic pathways are incomplete or absent, suggesting substantial metabolic dependence on the host cell. One protein family that may generate parasite antigenic diversity is not telomere-associated.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gardner, Malcolm J -- Bishop, Richard -- Shah, Trushar -- de Villiers, Etienne P -- Carlton, Jane M -- Hall, Neil -- Ren, Qinghu -- Paulsen, Ian T -- Pain, Arnab -- Berriman, Matthew -- Wilson, Robert J M -- Sato, Shigeharu -- Ralph, Stuart A -- Mann, David J -- Xiong, Zikai -- Shallom, Shamira J -- Weidman, Janice -- Jiang, Lingxia -- Lynn, Jeffery -- Weaver, Bruce -- Shoaibi, Azadeh -- Domingo, Alexander R -- Wasawo, Delia -- Crabtree, Jonathan -- Wortman, Jennifer R -- Haas, Brian -- Angiuoli, Samuel V -- Creasy, Todd H -- Lu, Charles -- Suh, Bernard -- Silva, Joana C -- Utterback, Teresa R -- Feldblyum, Tamara V -- Pertea, Mihaela -- Allen, Jonathan -- Nierman, William C -- Taracha, Evans L N -- Salzberg, Steven L -- White, Owen R -- Fitzhugh, Henry A -- Morzaria, Subhash -- Venter, J Craig -- Fraser, Claire M -- Nene, Vishvanath -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2005 Jul 1;309(5731):134-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA. gardner@tigr.org〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15994558" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Algorithms
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Animals
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Antigens, Protozoan/genetics
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Cattle
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Cell Proliferation
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Chromosomes/genetics
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Conserved Sequence
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Enzymes/genetics/metabolism
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Genes, Protozoan
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*Genome, Protozoan
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Lymphocytes/cytology/*parasitology
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Mitochondria/metabolism
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Organelles/genetics/physiology
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Plasmodium falciparum/genetics
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Protein Structure, Tertiary
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Protozoan Proteins/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism
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Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Synteny
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Telomere/genetics
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Theileria parva/*genetics/growth & development/pathogenicity/physiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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