Knockout of the glutamate dehydrogenase gene in bloodstream Trypanosoma brucei in culture has no effect on editing of mitochondrial mRNAs

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-17

  Estévez, Antonio M ^a   Kierszenbaum, Felipe ^c   Wirtz, Elizabeth ^d   Bringaud, Frédéric ^e   Grunstein, Jeremy ^b   Simpson, Larry ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Cell Devmtl Biol Med M   (United States)

^c Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Glutamate dehydrogenase; Kinetoplast DNA; Knockouts; RNA editing; Trypanosoma brucei

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; KINETOPLAST DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; KNOCKOUT GENE; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EDITING; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, KINETOPLAST; GENE DELETION; GENE TARGETING; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC VECTORS; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA; RNA EDITING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; TRANSFECTION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 0042035110     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(99)00024-9     Document Type: Article

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