Trypanosoma brucei poly(A) binding protein I cDNA cloning, expression, and binding to 5' untranslated region sequence elements

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 117-129

  Hotchkiss, Tracy L ^a   Nerantzakis, George E ^a   Dills, Sarah C ^a   Shang, Limin ^a   Read, Laurie K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

mRNA stability; Polyadenylation; RNA binding; Translation; Trypanosoma

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; RNA TRANSLATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLY(A)-BINDING PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EUKARYOTA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0032905730     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00156-X     Document Type: Article

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