Conserved nucleotides surrounding the trans-splicing acceptor site and the translation initiation codon in Leishmania genes

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 103, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 78-81

  Requena, Jose M ^a   Quijada, Luis ^a   Soto, Manuel ^a   Alonso, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CODON; EUKARYOTE; FLAGELLATE; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA SPLICING; TRANSLATION INITIATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENETICS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; START CODON; TRANS SPLICING;

EUKARYOTA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES);

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, INITIATOR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; LEISHMANIA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA SPLICE SITES; TRANS-SPLICING;

EID: 0037810347     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4894(03)00061-4     Document Type: Article

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