A novel strategy to identify the location of necessary and sufficient cis-acting regulatory mRNA elements in trypanosomes

RNA

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1108-1116

  Webb, Helena ^a   Burns, Roisin ^a   Kimblin, Nicola ^a   Ellis, Louise ^a   Carrington, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

mRNA instability; mRNA regulation; Mutagenesis; Trypanosoma brucei

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CIS ISOMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RNA STABILITY; TRYPANOSOMA; VALIDATION PROCESS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC MARKERS; HALF-LIFE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANS-SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EUKARYOTA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 22244433516     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.2510505     Document Type: Article

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