Spliced leader trapping reveals widespread alternative splicing patterns in the highly dynamic transcriptome of Trypanosoma brucei

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 21-22

  Nilsson, Daniel ^a   Gunasekera, Kapila ^a   Mani, Jan ^a   Osteras, Magne ^b   Farinelli, Laurent ^b   Baerlocher, Loic ^b   Roditi, Isabel ^a   Ochsenreiter, Torsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b FASTERIS SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPLICED LEADER RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA SPLICING; TRANS SPLICING; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; UNTRANSLATED REGION; UPREGULATION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CHORDATA; HEXAPODA; NEMATODA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SPLICED LEADER; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 77958123318     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1001037     Document Type: Article

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