An early ancestor in the evolution of splicing: A Trypanosoma cruzi serine-arginine-rich protein (TcSR) is functional in cis-splicing

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 37-46

  Portal, Daniel ^a   Espinosa, Joaquín M ^a   Lobo, Guillermo S ^a   Kadener, Sebastián ^b   Pereira, Claudio A ^a   De La Mata, Manuel ^b   Tang, Zhaohua ^c   Lin, Ren Jang ^c   Kornblihtt, Alberto R ^b   Baralle, Francisco E ^d   Flawiá, Mirtha M ^a   Torres, Héctor N ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

^c CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

cis Splicing; Evolution; SR protein; trans Splicing; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; FIBRONECTIN; ISOPROTEIN; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN PRP2; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SERINE; SERINE ARGININE PROTEIN; SERINE ARGININE PROTEIN KINASE; SPLICING FACTOR 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; EXON; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA SPLICING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TRANS SPLICING; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; WILD TYPE; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARGININE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA SPLICING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SERINE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EUKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 12244290335     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(02)00301-8     Document Type: Article

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