Overlapping sense and antisense transcription units in Trypanosoma brucei

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 869-878

  Liniger, Matthias ^a   Bodenmüller, Kurt ^a   Pays, Etienne ^b   Gallati, Sabina ^a   Roditi, Isabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMANITIN; CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; POLYADENYLATED RNA; PROCYCLIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CISTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA STABILITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; DNA, ANTISENSE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLYCOPROTEINS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE I; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EUKARYOTA; INSECTA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0035006055     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02426.x     Document Type: Article

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