A region containing repeated elements is associated with transcriptional termination of Leishmania infantum ribosomal RNA genes

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 101-110

  Requena, Jose M ^a   Soto, Manuel ^a   Quijada, Luis ^a   Carrillo, Graciela ^a   Alonso, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

like sequence; ribosomal DNA; run on assays; spacer repetitive elements; stem loop structure; transcriptional terminator

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PROTOZOAN; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031046815     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(96)02785-5     Document Type: Article

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