Cycloheximide-mediated accumulation of transcripts from a procyclin expression site depends on the intergenic region

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 93-97

  Flück, Christian ^a,b   Salomone, Jean Yves ^a,c   Kurath, Ursula ^a   Roditi, Isabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c Apotech Corporation   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Polyadenylation; RNA processing; RNA stability; Translation; Trypanosoma brucei

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CYCLINE; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; PROSTACYCLIN; PROTEIN; SPACER DNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; WILD TYPE; X CHROMOSOME;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0037373749     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(02)00310-9     Document Type: Article

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