Three small nucleolar RNAs identified from the spliced leader-associated RNA locus in kinetoplastid protozoans

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 4409-4417

  Roberts, T Guy ^a   Sturm, Nancy R ^a   Yee, Billy K ^a   Yu, Michael C ^a   Hartshorne, Toinette ^b   Agabian, Nina ^c   Campbell, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; GENE LOCUS; KINETOPLAST; LEISHMANIA; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

LEISHMANIA TARENTOLAE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0031857348     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.8.4409     Document Type: Article

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