Handling tRNA introns, archaeal way and eukaryotic way

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue JUL, 2014, Pages

  Yoshihisa, Tohru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Archaea; Eukaryote; Genome; Intron; Splicing; tRNA

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARCHAEON; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUKARYOTE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTRON; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA GENE; RNA SPLICING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84906282342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00213     Document Type: Review

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