Toxoplasma gondii: Structure and characterization of the 26S ribosomal RNA and peptidyl transferase domain

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 346-351

  Gagnon, Steve ^a   Morency, Marie Josée ^a   Bourbeau, David ^a   Levesque, Roger C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALIA; CILIOPHORA; DINOPHYCEAE; PROROCENTRUM MICANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0030219813     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1996.0082     Document Type: Article

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