Trypanosome spliced-leader-associated RNA (SLA1) localization and implications for spliced-leader RNA biogenesis

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 56-68

  Hury, Avraham ^a   Goldshmidt, Hanoch ^a   Tkacz, Itai Dov ^a   Michaeli, Shulamit ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL RNA; SPLICED LEADER RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CYTOPLASM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSPORT; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSPORT; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, SPLICED LEADER; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

LEPTOMONAS COLLOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 58149357239     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00322-08     Document Type: Article

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