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Transcriptome analysis of Taenia solium cysticerci using Open Reading Frame ESTs (ORESTES)

Carolina R Almeida1, Patricia H Stoco2, Glauber Wagner2,3, Thaís CM Sincero2, Gianinna Rotava2, Ethel Bayer-Santos2, Juliana B Rodrigues2, Maísa M Sperandio2, Antônio AM Maia4, Elida PB Ojopi1, Arnaldo Zaha5, Henrique B Ferreira5, Kevin M Tyler6, Alberto MR Dávila7, Edmundo C Grisard2,6* and Emmanuel Dias-Neto1,8

Author Affiliations

1 Laboratório de Neurociências (LIM27), Departamento e Instituto de Psiquiatria, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Rua Dr. Ovídio Pires de Campos 785, CEP 05403-010, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

2 Laboratórios de Protozoologia e de Bioinformática, Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Caixa postal 476, CEP 88040-970, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil

3 Laboratório de Biologia Molecular e Bioinformática, Área das Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina (UNOESC), CEP 89600-000, Joaçaba, SC, Brazil

4 Departamento de Ciências Básicas, Faculdade de Zootecnia e Engenharia de Alimentos. Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Av. Duque de Caxias Norte, 225, Centro, CEP 13630-000, Pirassununga, SP, Brazil

5 Departamento de Biologia Molecular e Biotecnologia and Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Prédio 4342131, Setor IV, Campus do Vale, CEP 91501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

6 Biomedical Research Centre, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia (UEA), NR4 7TJ, Norwich, Norfolk, UK

7 Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Pavilhão Leônidas Deane, Avenida Brasil 4365, CEP 21040-360, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

8 Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Unit 1374 Medical Center, 77030 Houston, USA

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Parasites & Vectors 2009, 2:35 doi:10.1186/1756-3305-2-35

Published: 31 July 2009

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Table S1. List of Taenia solium ESTs and their GenBank accession numbers.

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Table S3. Distribution of the Taenia solium EST according to their characteristics and similarity analysis.

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Table S4. Number of Taenia solium ORESTES according to their annotation as coding sequences (CDS).

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Table S5. Distribution of Taenia solium EST hits according to the Gene Onthology (GO) classification.

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Table S6. Taenia solium ESTs with predicted extra-cellular sub-localization by Wolf-PSORT.

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Table S7. Number of Taenia solium EST eliciting hits with the CDD database.

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Table S8. Number of Taenia solium EST eliciting hits with the COG database.

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Table S9. Number of Taenia solium EST eliciting hits with the KOG database.

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Picture S1. Distribution of the most frequent Eukaryotic Orthologous Groups categories observed for the Taenia solium sequences.

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Table S10. List of Taenia solium EST with similarity to the parasite genome project sequences.

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Table S11. List of interesting genes found in Taenia solium ESTs.

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Table S2. List of cDNA mini-libraries, primers used for generation of the Taenia solium EST profiles and the number of sequences obtained in each library.

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