Uridine insertion/deletion editing in trypanosomes: A playground for RNA-guided information transfer

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 669-685

  Aphasizhev, Ruslan ^a   Aphasizheva, Inna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; GUIDE RNA; MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA HELICASE; TRANSCRIPTOME; URIDINE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL RNA;

BINDING AFFINITY; KINETOPLASTIDA; LIGATION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA EDITING; START CODON; STOICHIOMETRY; STOP CODON; TRYPANOSOMA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

KINETOPLASTIDA; PROTISTA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

ENDONUCLEASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA EDITING; RNA HELICASES; RNA, GUIDE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMA; URIDINE;

EID: 84857734775     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.82     Document Type: Review

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