Transcription termination and 3'-end processing of the spliced leader RNA in kinetoplastids

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 1595-1604

  Sturm, Nancy R ^a   Yu, Michael C ^a   Campbell, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; EXON; GENE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; LEISHMANIA; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

ASCARIS; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA TARENTOLAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032951485     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.2.1595     Document Type: Article

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