The role of polymorphisms in the spliced leader addition domain in determining promoter activity in Brugia malayi

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-41

  Bailey, Michelle ^a   Chauhan, Chitra ^a   Liu, Canhui ^a   Unnasch, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Filariasis; Promoter; Ribosomal promoter; Spliced leader; Transfection

Indexed keywords

13 KDA LARGE SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN; LARGE SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; SPLICED LEADER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BRUGIA MALAYI; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSIENT TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRUGIA MALAYI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RNA, SPLICED LEADER;

BRUGIA MALAYI; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 78951473739     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2010.11.012     Document Type: Article

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