Posttranscriptional control and the role of RNA-binding proteins in gene regulation in trypanosomatid protozoan parasites

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-46

  Fernández Moya, Sandra M ^a   Estévez, Antonio M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE PARASITOLOGÍA Y BIOMEDICINA LÓPEZ NEYRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

EUGLENOZOA; GENE EXPRESSION; KINETOPLASTIDA; NONHUMAN; OPERON; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REGULON; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PARASITE; PHYSIOLOGY;

HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARASITES; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMATINA;

EID: 79953776282     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.6     Document Type: Review

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