The Leishmania major RNA polymerase II largest subunit lacks a carboxy-terminus heptad repeat structure and its encoding gene is linked with the calreticulin gene

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Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 57-68

  Croan, David G ^a,b   Ellis, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034043176     PISSN: 14344610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1434-4610-00007     Document Type: Article

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