Argonaute Protein in the Early Divergent Eukaryote Trypanosoma brucei: Control of Small Interfering RNA Accumulation and Retroposon Transcript Abundance

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 420-427

  Shi, Huafang ^a   Djikeng, Appolinaire ^a   Tschudi, Christian ^a   Ullu, Elisabetta ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; KNOCKOUT GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETROPOSON; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA STABILITY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RETROELEMENTS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EUKARYOTA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0346363759     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.24.1.420-427.2004     Document Type: Article

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