Fig 5. Expression patterns of selected genes encoding RNA binding proteins.

Expression values for genes encoding RPBs were extracted from S4 Table. The selected genes were observed to be up-regulated in CL Brener and CL-14 trypomastigotes (A), in CL Brener and CL-14 amastigotes (B-F), and only in trypomastigotes from CL-14 (G). Only genes encoding proteins with RNA binding domains whose transcripts present logFC > 2 comparing amastigotes at 60 hpi and 96 hpi and trypomastigote stages are shown. When sequences from both haplotypes are present, the sequences shown in the graphs correspond to Esmeraldo-like alleles, but similar expression patterns were obtained with the non-Esmeraldo alleles.