Maxicircle genomic organization and editing of an ATPase subunit 6 RNA in Trypanosoma cruzi

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 267-278

  Ochs, Diane E ^a   Otsu, Keiko ^b   Teixeira, Santuza M R ^b   Moser, David R ^a   Kirchhofff, Louis V ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ATPase; guide RNA; maxicircle; minicircle; RNA editing; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DNA FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; LEISHMANIA; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EDITING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; LEISHMANIA TARENTOLAE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0029925446     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(95)02565-0     Document Type: Article

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