Bibliography on the Trypanosoma cruzi Genome Initiative



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Ajioka J., Swindle J. (1996). The calmodulin-ubiquitin (CUB) genes of Trypanosoma cruzi are essential for parasite viability. Mol. Biochim. Parasitol 78 (1-2): 217-225.

Fernandes O., Souto R.P., Castro J.A., Pereira J.B., Fernandes N.C., Junqueira A.C., Naiff R.D., Barret T.V., Degrave W., Zingales B., Campbell D.A., Coura J.R. (1998). Brazilian isolates of Trypanosoma cruzi from humans and triatomines classified into two lineages using mini-exon and ribosomal sequences. Am J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 58 (6): 807-811.

Kelly, J.M. (1997) Genetic transformation of parasitic protozoa. Adv. Parasitol 39:227-270.

Kelly, J.M., Ward, H.M., Miles, M.A., Kendall, G. (1992) A shuttle vector which facilitates the expression of transfected genes in Trypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania Nucleic Acids Res 20: 3963-3969.

Souto R.P., Fernandes O., Macedo A.M., Campbell D.A., Zingales B. (1996). DNA markers define two major phylogenetic lineages of Trypanosoma cruzi. Mol. Biochim. Parasitol 83 92): 141-152.

Kelly JM, Das P, Tomas AM. (1994). An approach to functional complementation by introduction of large DNA fragments into Trypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania donovani using a cosmid shuttle vector. Mol Biochem Parasitol 65(1):51-62.

Ferrari I, Lorenzi H, Santos MR, Brandariz S, Requena JM, Schijman A, Vazquez M, da Silveira JF, Ben-Dov C, Medrano C, Ghio S, Lopez Bergami P, Cano I, Zingales B, Urmenyi TP, Rondinelli E, Gonzalez A, Cortes A, Lopez MC, Thomas MC, Alonso C, Ramirez JL, Chiurrillo MA, Aldao RR, Levin MJ, et al. (1997). Towards the physical map of the Trypanosoma cruzi nuclear genome: construction of YAC and BAC libraries of the reference clone T. cruzi CL-Brener. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 92(6):843-52

Zingales B, Pereira ME, Almeida KA, Umezawa ES, Nehme NS, Oliveira RP, Macedo A, Souto RP. (1997). Biological parameters and molecular markers of clone CL Brener-the reference organism of the Trypanosoma cruzi genome project. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 92(6):811-4

Degrave W, de Miranda AB, Amorim A, Brandao A, Aslett M, Vandeyar M (1997). TcruziDB, an integrated database, and the WWW information server for the Trypanosoma cruzi genome project. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 92(6):805-9

Brandao A, Urmenyi T, Rondinelli E, Gonzalez A, de Miranda AB, Degrave W (1997). Identification of transcribed sequences (ESTs) in the Trypanosoma cruzi genome project. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 92(6):863-6

Andersson, B., Aslund, L., Tammi, M., Tran, A., Hoheisel, J.D., and Petersson, U. (1998). Complete sequence of a 93.4-kb contig from chromosome 3 of Trypanosoma cruzi containing a strand-switch region. Genome Res.8:809-816. Brener, Z. (1973). Biology of Trypanosoma cruzi. Ann. Rev. Microbiol. 27:345-382.

Cano, M.I., Gruber, A,. Vasquez, M., Cortes, A., Levin, M.J., Gonzalez, A., Degrave, W.M., Rondinelli, E., Zingales, B., Ramirez, J.L., Alonso, C., Requema, J.M.,and Franco da Silveira, J. (1995). Molecular karyotype of clone CL Brener chosen for the Trypanosoma cruzi genome project. Mol Biochem Parasitol 71:273-278.

Chiurillo, M.A., Cano, M.I., Franco da Silveira, J., and Ramirez, J.L. (1999). Organization of telomeric and sub-telomeric regions of chromosomes from the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzy. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol.In Press.

Di Noia, J.M., D'Orso, I., Aslund, L., Sanchez, D.O., and Frasch, A.C.C. (1998). The Trypanosoma cruzi mucin family is transcribed from hundreds of genes having hypervariable regions. J. Biol. Chem. 273:10843-10850.

Ferrari, I., Brandariz, S., Santos, M.R., Lorenzi, H., Requena, J.M., Schijman, A., Vazquez, M., Franco da Silveira, J. Ben Dov, C., Medrano, C., Kaplan, D., Ghio, S., Elias, F., López Bergami, P., Cano, M.I., Zingales, B., Urmenyi, T., Rondinelli, E., Gonzalez, A., Cortes, A., Alonso, C., Ramirez, J.L., Chiurrillo, M.A., Rangel Aldao, R., Brandão, A., Degrave, W., Perrot, V., Saumier, M., Billaut, A., Cohen, D., LePaslier, D., and Levin, M.J. (1997). Towards the physical map of Trypanosoma cruzi nuclear genome: construction of YAC and BAC libraries of the reference clone T. cruzi CL Brener. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 92:843-858.

Frohme, M., Hanke, D.O., Aslund, L., Petersson, U., and Hoheisel, J.D. (1998). Selective generation of chromosomal cosmid libraries within Trypanosoma cruzi project. Electrophoresis 19:478-481.

Hanke, D.O., Sanchez, D.O., Henriksson, J., Aslund, L., Petersson, U., Frasch, A.C.C., and Hoheisel, J.D. (1996). Mapping the Trypanosome cruzi genome: analyses of representative cosmid libraries. Biotechniques 21:686-693.

Hanke, D.O., Frohme, M., Laurent, J.P., Swindle, J., and Hoheisel, J.D. (1998). Hybridization mapping of Trypanosome cruzi chromosomes II and IV. Electrophoresis 19:482-485.

Henriksson, J., Aslund, L., Macina, R.A., Cazullo, B.M.F., Cazzulo, J.J., Frasch, A.C.C., and Pettersson, U. (1995). Chromosome specific markers reveal conserved linkage groups in spite of extensive size variation in Trypanosoma cruzi. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol.73:64-73.

Henriksson, J., Aslund, L., and Pettersson, U. (1996). Karyotype variability in Trypanosoma cruzi. Parasitol. Today 12:108-114.

Requena, J.M., Lopez, M.C., and Alonso, C. (1996). Genomic repetitive DNA elements of Trypanosoma cruzi. Parasitol. Today 12:279-283.

Santos, M.R.S., Cano, M.I., Schijman, A., Vazquez, M., Levin, M.J., Ramirez, J.L., Brandão, A., Degrave, W.M., and Franco da Silveira, J. (1997). Trypanosoma cruzi genome project: nuclear karyotype and gene mapping of clone CL Brener. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 92: 821-828.

Zingales, B., Rondinelli, E., Degrave, W., Franco da Silveira, J. Levin, M., LePaslier, D., Modabber, F., Dobrokhotov, B., Swindle, J., Kelly, J.M., Aslund. L., Hoheisel, J.D., Ruis, A.M., Cazzulo, J.J., Pettersson, U. and Frasch, A.C. (1997). The Trypanosoma cruzi genome initiative. Parasitol. Today 13:16-22.

Zingales, B., Pereira, M.E.S., Oliveira, R.P., Almeida, K.A., Umezawa, E.S, Souto, R.P, Vargas, N., Cano, M.I., Franco Da Silveira, J., Nehme, N.S., Morel, C.M., Brener, Z., and Macedo, A. (1997). Trypanosoma cruzi genome project: biological chracteristics and molecular typing of clone CL Brener. Acta Tropica 68:159-173.