Unconventional rules of small nuclear RNA transcription and cap modification in trypanosomatids

Gene Expression

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 3-16

  Tschudi, C ^a   Ullu, E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cap 4 structure; Cap formation; RNA polymerase III transcription; Spliced leader RNA; Trans Splicing; Trimethylguanosine cap; TRNA genes; U snRNAs

Indexed keywords

CAPPED RNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; GUANOSINE DERIVATIVE; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; TRANSFER RNA; URIDINE PHOSPHATE;

EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENE STRUCTURE; INTRON; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALS; DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES; GENES, OVERLAPPING; METHYLTRANSFERASES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA CAPS; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA, SPLICED LEADER; RNA, TRANSFER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPLICEOSOMES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMATINA;

EUKARYOTA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 0036178152     PISSN: 10522166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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