Establishment of an in vitro trans-splicing system in Trypanosoma brucei that requires endogenous spliced leader RNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Shaked, Hadassa ^a   Wachtel, Chaim ^a   Tulinski, Pawel ^a   Yahia, Nasreen Hag ^a   Barda, Omer ^a   Darzynkiewicz, Edward ^b   Nilsen, Timothy W ^c   Michaeli, Shulamit ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; PROTEIN SM; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SPLICED LEADER RNA; CAPPED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA PRECURSOR; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; U2 SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; U6 SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBONUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAY; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRANS SPLICING; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HEAT; METABOLISM; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING;

TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; HOT TEMPERATURE; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA CAPS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA, SPLICED LEADER; TRANS-SPLICING; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 77954118235     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq065     Document Type: Article

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