Elongator protein 3b negatively regulates ribosomal DNA transcription in African trypanosomes

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1822-1832

  Alsford, Sam ^a   Horn, David ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; ELONGATOR PROTEIN 3B; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRYPANOSOMA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENE DELETION; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE I; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 79955441791     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: 10985549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01026-10     Document Type: Article

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