In vitro transcription of mutated Leishmania tarentolae spliced leader RNA genes approximates in vivo patterns

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 391-399

  Yu, Michael C ^a   Guy Roberts, T ^a   Sturm, Nancy R ^a   Campbell, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Kinetoplastid; Mini exon; SnRNA; Trans splicing; Trypanosome

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; SPLICED LEADER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA TEMPLATE; GENE MUTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; ISOTOPE LABELING; LEISHMANIA TARENTOLAE; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; LEISHMANIA; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, SPLICED LEADER; RNA, TRANSFER; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRANS-SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA TARENTOLAE;

EID: 0034491893     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(00)00332-7     Document Type: Article

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