The second largest subunit of Trypanosoma brucei's multifunctional RNA polymerase I has a unique N-terminal extension domain

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 193-200

  Schimanski, Bernd ^a   Klumpp, Birgit ^a   Laufer, Gabriele ^a   Marhöfer, Richard J ^a,c   Selzer, Paul M ^a,c   Günzl, Arthur ^a,b  

^a Medizinisch N   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c Intervet Innovation GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Leishmania major; RNA polymerase I; RPA1; RPA2; Trypanosoma brucei

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; GLYCOPROTEIN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; TBRPA1 GENE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE I; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EUKARYOTA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PROTISTA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 0037330035     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(02)00273-6     Document Type: Article

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