Stage-independent splicing of transcripts from two heterogeneous neighboring genes in Leishmania amazonensis

Gene

Volumn 196, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 49-59

  Kawazu, Shin Ichiro ^a   Lu, Hong Gang ^a   Chang, Kwang Poo ^a  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystallin NADPH oxidoreductase; N Acetylglucosamine 1 phosphate transferase; Polyadenylation; trans Splicing

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TUNICAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CISTRON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; LEISHMANIA; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLINS; GENES, PROTOZOAN; LEISHMANIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NAD(P)H DEHYDROGENASE (QUINONE); PLASMIDS; POLY A; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFERASES (OTHER SUBSTITUTED PHOSPHATE GROUPS); ZETA-CRYSTALLINS;

LEISHMANIA AMAZONENSIS; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 0030758928     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00190-X     Document Type: Article

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