Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Amount

$228,414.00

Award Date

9/30/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

RNA editing in kinetoplastids, several of which are global pathogens, is a unique, and essential, process in the mitochondria of these ancient eukaryotes. This process uses hundreds of so-called 'guide RNAs' to edit an incomplete 'pre-messenger RNA' by U-