Single nucleotide resolution of promoter activity and protein binding for the Leishmania tarentolae spliced leader RNA gene

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 265-281

  Yu, Michael C ^a   Sturm, Nancy R ^a   Saito, R Mako ^a   Roberts, T Guy ^a   Campbell, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Kinetoplastid; Mini exon; snRNA; Transcription

Indexed keywords

VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EXON; FLAGELLATE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LEISHMANIA; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EXONS; GENES, PROTOZOAN; LEISHMANIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, SPLICED LEADER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

LEISHMANIA TARENTOLAE; METAZOA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032145091     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00083-8     Document Type: Article

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