Sjα elements, short interspersed element-like retroposons bearing a hammerhead ribozyme motif from the genome of the Oriental blood fluke Schistosoma japonicum

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1492, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 477-482

  Laha, Thewarach ^a,b,c   McManus, Donald P ^a,b   Loukas, Alex ^a,b   Brindley, Paul J ^a,b,d  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d Ctr Infect Dis Sch Pub H   (United States)

Author keywords

Hammerhead; Retroposon; Ribozyme; Schistosoma japonicum; Schistosome; Short interspersed element

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; RIBOZYME; HELMINTH DNA;

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RETROPOSON; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; TREMATODE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, HELMINTH; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, CATALYTIC; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SHORT INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS;

EID: 0034709817     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(00)00112-3     Document Type: Article

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