In vitro import of a nuclearly encoded tRNA into the mitochondrion of Trypanosoma brucei

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 6253-6259

  Yermovsky Kammerer, Audra E ^a   Hajduk, Stephen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSPORT; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0032802175     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.19.9.6253     Document Type: Article

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