Gleis Week 11
GO Terms
Metacyclic: produced in an intermediate host, and infective for the definitive host; said of the infective stages of trypanosomes. http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/metacyclic
Promastigote:The flagellate stage of a trypanosomatid protozoan, as that of any of the Leishmania parasites http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/promastigote
Phagolysosome:a cytoplasmic body formed by the fusion of a phagosome, or ingested particle, with a lysosome containing hydrolytic enzymes. The enzymes digest most of the material within the phagosome http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/phagolysosome
Tripartite:having three corresponding parts or copies http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tripartite
"Repeated-repeat": repeated tandem repeats, Copies of DNA sequences which lie adjacent to each other in the same orientation (direct tandem repeats) or in the opposite direction to each other http://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/mesh/2011/MB_cgi?mode=&term=Tandem+Repeat
bacterial clade:Related organisms descended from a common ancestor. For example, isolate M of HIV-1 (the human immunodeficiency virus) consists of at least ten clades. Imported from the Greek, klados, branch in 1911 in reference to the Tree of Life. http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=22233
filarial:related to or infested with or transmitting parasitic worms especially filaria http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=filarial
trypanosomatid:common name for a member of the family Trypanosomatidae http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/trypanosomatid
chromodomain:Chromodomains are highly conserved sequence motifs that have been identified in a variety of animal and plant species. A chromodomain harbours a methylated lysine residue. http://www.springerreference.com/docs/html/chapterdbid/34668.html
bromodomain:Protein containing at least one bromodomain. The bromodomain is a conserved region, approximately 70 amino acids, characteristic for a class of regulatory proteins. It mediates interactions with proteins that are necessary for transcriptional activation. http://www.uniprot.org/keywords/KW-0103
