Transcription of protein-coding genes in trypanosomes by RNA polymerase I

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue , 1997, Pages 463-489

  Lee, Mary Gwo Shu ^a   Van Der Ploeg, Lex H T ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

amanitin; Protein coding gene; RNA polymerase; rRNA; Transcription; Trypanosome

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LIFE CYCLE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; TRYPANOSOMA;

AMANITINS; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE I; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; EUKARYOTA; KINETOPLASTIDA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 0030873892     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.51.1.463     Document Type: Review

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