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Exportin 1 mediates nuclear export of the kinetoplastid spliced leader RNA.
Eukaryotic cell - 1 Apr 2003
Zeiner Gusti M, Sturm Nancy R, Campbell David A
Abstract excerpt
The kinetoplastid protozoan spliced leader (SL) RNA is the common substrate pre-mRNA utilized in all trans-splicing reactions. Here we show by fluorescence in situ hybridization that the SL RNA is present in the cytoplasm of Leishmania tarentolae and Trypanosoma brucei. Treatment with the karyopherin-specific inhibitor leptomycin B was toxic to T. brucei and eliminated the cytoplasmic SL RNA, suggesting that...
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