Minicircle kinetoplast genome of insect trypanosomatid Leptomonas pyrrhocoris
- Authors: Gerasimov E.S.1, Gasparyan A.A.1, Litus I.A.1, Logacheva M.D.2, Kolesnikov A.A.1
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Affiliations:
- Faculty of Biology
- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology
- Issue: Vol 82, No 5 (2017)
- Pages: 572-578
- Section: Article
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0006-2979/article/view/151375
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006297917050054
- ID: 151375
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Abstract
We present here the structure of a minicircle population based on transcriptome sequencing of Leptomonas pyrrhocoris. We show that minicircle DNA molecules are dimeric. As in dixenous species, the entire molecule of minicircle DNA is transcribed. This is the first minicircle transcriptome of monoxenous trypanosomatid species determined using NGS technology.
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E. S. Gerasimov
Faculty of Biology
Author for correspondence.
Email: jalgard@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Moscow, 119991
A. A. Gasparyan
Faculty of Biology
Email: aak330@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 119991
I. A. Litus
Faculty of Biology
Email: aak330@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 119991
M. D. Logacheva
Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology
Email: aak330@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 119991
A. A. Kolesnikov
Faculty of Biology
Author for correspondence.
Email: aak330@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 119991