Structural features of the large subunit rRNA expressed in Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites that distinguish it from the asexually expressed large subunit rRNA

RNA

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 134-145

  John Rogers, M ^a   Gutell, Robin R ^b   Damberger, Simon H ^b   Li, Jun ^a   Mcconkey, Glenn A ^a   Waters, Andrew P ^c   McCutchan, Thomas F ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

malaria; mosquito stage; ribosome; RNA secondary structure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; SPOROZOITE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 19244364587     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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