Selection and characterization of RNA interference-deficient trypanosomes impaired in target mRNA degradation

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1445-1453

  Shi, Huafang ^a   Chamond, Nathalie ^a   Tschudi, Christian ^a   Ullu, Elisabetta ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TUBULIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SEPARATION; CYTOKINESIS; ELECTROPORATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE; TIME; TRYPANOSOMA; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SEPARATION; CYTOKINESIS; ELECTROPORATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; TIME FACTORS; TRYPANOSOMA; TUBULIN;

PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 11144347805     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.3.6.1445-1453.2004     Document Type: Article

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