Characterization of a multisubunit transcription factor complex essential for spliced-leader RNA gene transcription in Trypanosoma brucei

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 7303-7313

  Schimanski, Bernd ^a   Nguyen, Tu N ^a   Günzl, Arthur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; NUCLEAR RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA ACTIVATING PROTEIN COMPLEX; TATA BINDING PROTEIN RELATED FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; IN VITRO STUDY; LEISHMANIA; LIFE CYCLE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA SPLICING; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; DROSOPHILA; EPITOPES; GENOME; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEPTIDES; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUCROSE; TATA-BOX BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

LEISHMANIA (PROPER); LEISHMANIA (SUBGENUS); MAMMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 23344448980     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.25.16.7303-7313.2005     Document Type: Article

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