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Published on: July 30, 2014
Cloning and characterization of Trichophyton rubrum genes encoding actin, Tri r2, and Tri r4
1Department of Dermatology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75390-9069, USA.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|July 10, 2004
Abstract:
The three structural genes of Trichophyton rubrum encoding actin (3,429 bp) and two antigens, Tri r2 (2,950 bp) and Tri r4 (3,988 bp), were cloned and characterized. They contained six, four, and five exons, respectively. The T. rubrum actin protein sequence revealed extremely high homology to other fungal actins.
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