Human and fungal 3' splice sites are used by Trypanosoma brucei for trans splicing

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 11-23

  Metzenberg, Stan ^a,b   Agabian, Nina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

pre mRNA splicing; Trypanosoma brucei

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; FUNGI; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSFECTION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 0030566657     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(96)02742-9     Document Type: Article

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