Characterisation of kinetoplast DNA minicircles from Herpetomonas samuelpessoai

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 65-71

  Fu, Guoliang ^a   Lambson, Bronwen ^a   Barker, Douglas ^a  

^a Molteno Labs   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Guide RNA gene; Herpetomonas samuelpessoai; Kinetoplast minicircle; RNA editing

Indexed keywords

GUIDE RNA; KINETOPLAST DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HERPETOMONAS; KINETOPLAST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EDITING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, KINETOPLAST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EDITING; RNA, GUIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRYPANOSOMATINA;

EID: 0032995473     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00015-4     Document Type: Article

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