Spliced-leader RNA silencing: A novel stress-induced mechanism in Trypanosoma brucei

EMBO Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 408-413

  Lustig, Yaniv ^a   Sheiner, Lilach ^a   Vagima, Yaron ^a   Goldshmidt, Hanoch ^a   Das, Anish ^b   Bellofatto, Vivian ^b   Michaeli, Shulamit ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCKING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SILENCING; INFECTION CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RIBOSOME; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, PEPTIDE; RIBOSOMES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SPLICED LEADER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 34047155622     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400930     Document Type: Article

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