Are tRNAs imported into the mitochondria of kinetoplastid protozoa as 5'-extended precursors?

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 1998, Pages

  Aphasizhev, Ruslan ^a   Karmarkar, Uma ^a   Simpson, Larry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Kinetoplastid protozoa; L. tarentolae; Mitochondrial tRNA; T. brucei

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; FLAGELLATE; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSPORT; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, TRANSFER; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

LEISHMANIA TARENTOLAE; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0032523748     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00022-X     Document Type: Article

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