Landscape of the spliced leader trans-splicing mechanism in Schistosoma mansoni

Abstract Spliced leader dependent trans-splicing (SLTS) has been described as an important RNA regulatory process that occurs in different organisms, including the trematode Schistosoma mansoni. We identified more than seven thousand putative SLTS sites in the parasite, comprising genes with a wide...

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Main Authors: Mariana Boroni, Michael Sammeth, Sandra Grossi Gava, Natasha Andressa Nogueira Jorge, Andréa Mara Macedo, Carlos Renato Machado, Marina Moraes Mourão, Glória Regina Franco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-03-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-22093-3