Spliceosomal snRNAs in the unicellular eukaryote Trichomonas vaginalis are structurally conserved but lack a 5'-cap structure

RNA

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1617-1631

  Simoes Barbosa, Augusto ^a,b   Meloni, Dionigia ^a   Wohlschlegel, James A ^c   Konarska, Maria M ^d   Johnson, Patricia J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE BRASÍLIA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capping; snRNA; Splicing; Trichomonas vaginalis

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; SPLICEOSOME; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SPLICEOSOMES; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

EUKARYOTA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; METAZOA; PROTISTA; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

EID: 47949123390     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.1045408     Document Type: Article

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