Trans-acting proteins regulating mRNA maturation, stability and translation in trypanosomatids

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 23-30

  Kramer, Susanne ^a   Carrington, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; F BOX PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CRITHIDIA; DNA MODIFICATION; EUKARYOTE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE TARGETING; GENOME; HUMAN; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STABILITY; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA METABOLISM; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMATINA;

EUKARYOTA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 78650533544     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2010.06.011     Document Type: Review

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