Transcription of the kinetoplastid spliced leader RNA gene

Parasitology Today

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 78-82

  Campbell, D A ^a   Sturm, N R ^a   Yu, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,10 PHENANTHROLINE; ALPHA AMANITIN; ENZYME INHIBITOR; MANGANESE; MESSENGER RNA; POTASSIUM ION; RNA POLYMERASE; SARKOSYL; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; SPLICED LEADER RNA; TAGETITOXIN; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

CRITHIDIA; FLAGELLATE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TARENTOLAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

AMANITINS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; KINETOPLASTIDA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, SPLICED LEADER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANS-SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0034141646     PISSN: 01694758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-4758(99)01545-8     Document Type: Review

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