Downregulation of the essential Trypanosoma brucei La protein affects accumulation of elongator methionyl-tRNA

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 104-108

  Arhin, George K ^a   Shen, Shuiyuan ^a   Pérez, Iehsus Flores ^a   Tschudi, Christian ^a   Ullu, Elisabetta ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Elongator methionyl trna; La protein; Small rnas; Trypanosoma brucei; Tyrosyl trna

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; LA ANTIGEN; METHIONINE TRANSFER RNA; PHOSPHORUS 32; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; URIDINE DERIVATIVE; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CYTOPLASM; DOWN REGULATION; EXTRACTION; FRACTIONATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TIME; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; DOWN-REGULATION; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, SMALL CYTOPLASMIC; RNA, TRANSFER; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 25844451002     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2005.06.006     Document Type: Article

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