Active RNA polymerase I of Trypanosoma brucei harbors a novel subunit essential for transcription

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 6254-6263

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; EPITOPE; GLYCOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PROCYCLIN; RIBOSOME RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EUKARYOTE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA POLYMERASE I; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 34548238632     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00382-07     Document Type: Article

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