Searching for promoter activity in RIME/Ingi retrotransposons from Trypanosoma brucei: Binding of a nuclear protein to their 5′ extremity

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 104, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 140-148

  García Salcedo, José A ^a   Gijón, Purificación ^a   Amiguet Vercher, Amelia ^a   Pays, Etienne ^a  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REPORTER GENE; RETROPOSON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

FELIS CATUS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0141638593     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2003.08.004     Document Type: Article

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