Analysis of the 3' uridylylation sites of guide RNAs from Leishmania tarentolae

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 229-234

  Thiemann, Otavio H ^a   Simpson, Larry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

gRNA; Leishmania; RNA editing

Indexed keywords

GUIDE RNA; PROTOZOAL RNA;

ARTICLE; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE;

LEISHMANIA TARENTOLAE;

EID: 0030221984     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(96)02653-9     Document Type: Article

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