Genome-wide analysis of mRNA abundance in two life-cycle stages of Trypanosoma brucei and identification of splicing and polyadenylation sites

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 4946-4957

  Siegel, Tim Nicolai ^a   Hekstra, Doeke R ^a   Wang, Xuning ^a   Dewell, Scott ^a   Cross, George A M ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; GUANINE; MESSENGER RNA; THYMINE; TRANSCRIPTOME; RNA SPLICING; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; INTRON; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; METABOLISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANS SPLICING; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GENOMICS; INTRONS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; POLYADENYLATION; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANS-SPLICING; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

EID: 77956127684     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq237     Document Type: Article

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