Evidence that noncoding RNA dutA is a multicopy suppressor of Dictyostelium discoideum STAT protein Dd-STATa

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1030-1040

  Shimada, Nao ^a   Kawata, Takefumi ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; MICRORNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RNA PRECURSOR; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; STAT PROTEIN; STATA PROTEIN, DICTYOSTELIUM; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION;

ANIMALS; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MICRORNAS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; STAT TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TYROSINE;

DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; METAZOA;

EID: 34250811427     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00035-07     Document Type: Article

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