Structural RNAs of known and unknown function identified in malaria parasites by comparative genomics and RNA analysis

RNA

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1923-1939

  Chakrabarti, Kausik ^a   Pearson, Michael ^a   Grate, Leslie ^a   Sterne Weiler, Timothy ^a   Deans, Jonathan ^a   Donohue, John Paul ^a   Ares Jr , Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Malaria; Malaria genome browser; Plasmodium; RNA coding genes; RUF; snoRNA; snRNA; Telomerase RNA

Indexed keywords

MRP RNA; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE P; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; TELOMERASE RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; SPLICEOSOME;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MALARIA; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RNA; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA, SMALL NUCLEOLAR; RNA, TRANSFER; SPLICEOSOMES; TELOMERASE;

EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM SP.; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 35548994539     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.751807     Document Type: Article

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