T. Brucei RNA editing: Adenosine nucleotides inversely affect U-deletion and U-insertion reactions at mRNA cleavage

Molecular Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 401-409

  Cruz Reyes, Jorge ^a   Rusché, Laura N ^a   Piller, Kenneth J ^a   Sollner Webb, Barbara ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CYTOCHROME B; ENDONUCLEASE; PROTOZOAL RNA; RNA LIGASE; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA PRECURSOR; UTP RNA URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; UTP-RNA URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA EDITING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ADENOSINE; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; ENDONUCLEASES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; RNA EDITING; RNA LIGASE (ATP); RNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, PROTOZOAN; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 0031993321     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80040-4     Document Type: Article

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