Characterization of a SR protein from Trypanosoma brucei with homology to RNA-binding cis-splicing proteins

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 103-115

  Ismaïli, Naïma ^a   Pérez Morga, David ^a   Walsh, Patrick ^b   Mayeda, Akila ^c   Pays, Annette ^a   Tebabi, Patricia ^a   Krainer, Adrian R ^c   Pays, Etienne ^a  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

RRM motif; Spliced leader RNA; SR protein; trans splicing; Trypanosoma brucei

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; PROTEIN; SERINE; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, SPLICED LEADER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANS-SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EUKARYOTA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0032800842     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(99)00091-2     Document Type: Article

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