Dual targeting of isoleucyl-tRNA synthetase in Trypanosoma brucei is mediated through alternative trans-splicing

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1299-1306

  Rettig, Jochen ^a   Wang, Yimu ^a   Schneider, André ^a   Ochsenreiter, Torsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOLEUCINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CYTOSOL; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOSOL; ISOLEUCINE-TRNA LIGASE; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-SPLICING; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EUKARYOTA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 84863178353     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr794     Document Type: Article

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