A short RNA stem-loop is necessary and sufficient for repression of gene expression during early logarithmic phase in trypanosomes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 7201-7209

  Fernández Moya, Sandra M ^a   Carrington, Mark ^b   Estévez, Antonio M ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOBASE TRANSPORTER; NUCLEOBASE TRANSPORTER NT8; PURINE DERIVATIVE; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; DOWN REGULATION; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GROWTH CURVE; HALF LIFE TIME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTIST LIFE CYCLE STAGE; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; UPREGULATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOBASE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; PURINES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 84903169517     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku358     Document Type: Article

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