Transcriptional mapping and RNA processing of the Plasmodium falciparum mitochondrial mRNAs

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 91-103

  Rehkopf, David H ^a   Gillespie, Doreen E ^a   Harrell, Maria Isabel ^a   Feagin, Jean E ^a,b  

^a SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Mitochondrial genes; Plasmodium falciparum; Polyadenylation; Transcription

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA STRAND; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APOPROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0033991171     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(99)00170-X     Document Type: Article

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