Onchocerca volvulus superoxide dismutase genes: Identification of functional promoters for Pre-mRNA transcripts which undergo trans-splicing

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 172-179

  Tawe, Wilson ^a   Walter, Rolf D ^a   Henkle Dührsen, Kimberly ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHO CELL; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE ISOLATION; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS GRISEUS; NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS;

EID: 0034111226     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.2000.4488     Document Type: Article

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