The Trypanosoma brucei spliced leader RNA and rRNA gene promoters have interchangeable TbSNAP50-binding elements

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 700-709

  Schimanski, Bernd ^a,b   Laufer, Gabriele ^b   Gontcharova, Lilia ^b   Günzl, Arthur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN P57; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; SPLICED LEADER RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, SPLICED LEADER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

LEPTOMONAS; LEPTOMONAS SEYMOURI; PROTISTA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 1342306354     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh231     Document Type: Article

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