A large number of nuclear genes in the human parasite blastocystis require mRNA polyadenylation to create functional termination codons

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1956-1961

  Klimeš, Vladimír ^a   Gentekaki, Eleni ^b   Roger, Andrew J ^b,c   Eliáš, Marek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blastocystis; Evolution; Gene expression; MRNA processing; Polyadenylation; Termination codons; Translation

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; STOP CODON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLASTOCYSTIS; BLASTOCYSTOSIS; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; POLYADENYLATION; STOP CODON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLASTOCYSTIS; BLASTOCYSTIS INFECTIONS; CODON, TERMINATOR; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYADENYLATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84927171650     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evu146     Document Type: Article

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