Bidirectional silencing of RNA polymerase I transcription by a strand switch region in Trypanosoma brucei

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 5007-5018

  Haenni, Simon ^a,b   Studer, Erwin ^a   Burkard, Gabriela Schumann ^a   Roditi, Isabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; MESSENGER RNA; POL PROTEIN; PROCYCLIN ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1; PROCYCLIN ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; PROCYCLIN ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 3; PROCYCLIN ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 5; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA MINING; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENOME ANALYSIS; KNOCKOUT GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REGULATOR GENE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STABLE TRANSFECTION; STEADY STATE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; TRANSIENT TRANSFECTION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; GENE DELETION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA POLYMERASE I; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

HEXAPODA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 69849085308     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp513     Document Type: Article

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