The modified base J is the target for a novel DNA-binding protein in kinetoplastid protozoans

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 6573-6581

  Cross, Mike ^d   Kieft, Rudo ^d   Sabatini, Robert ^d   Wilm, Matthias ^a   De Kort, Martin ^b   Van Der Marel, Gijs A ^b   Van Boom, Jacques H ^b   Van Leeuwen, Fred ^c,d   Borst, Piet ^d  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^d NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antigenic variation; DNA modification; DNA binding protein; Epigenetic silencing; VSG

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; URACIL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CRITHIDIA FASCICULATA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLATE; LEISHMANIA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTOZOON; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CRITHIDIA FASCICULATA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; GLUCOSIDES; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; URACIL; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

CRITHIDIA FASCICULATA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; INVERTEBRATA; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA TARENTOLAE; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0033570918     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.22.6573     Document Type: Article

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