A new twist in trypanosome RNA metabolism: Cis-splicing of pre-mRNA

RNA

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 163-169

  Mair, Gunnar ^a   Shi, Huafang ^a   Li, Hongjie ^a   Djikeng, Appolinaire ^a   Aviles, Hernan O ^b   Bishop, Joseph R ^c   Falcone, Franco H ^d   Gavrilescu, Cristina ^e   Montgomery, Jacqui L ^f   Santori, M Isabel ^g   Stern, Leah S ^h   Wang, Zefeng ⁱ   Ullu, Elisabetta ^a   Tschudi, Christian ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^f ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^g INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

^h SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Introns; Kinetoplastidae; Poly(A) polymerase; Trans splicing; Trypanosoma brucei; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MESSENGER RNA; POLYNUCLEOTIDE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; PROTOZOAL RNA; SPLICED LEADER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EUGLENA GRACILIS; GENE ISOLATION; INTRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA METABOLISM; STRUCTURAL GENE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EXONS; GENES, PROTOZOAN; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; POLYNUCLEOTIDE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, PROTOZOAN; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EUGLENA GRACILIS; EUKARYOTA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0033983712     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S135583820099229X     Document Type: Article

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