Three abundant germ line-specific transcripts in Volvox carteri encode photosynthetic proteins

Current Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 347-355

  Choi, Giltsu ^a   Przybylska, Malgorzata ^a   Straus, Donald ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Evolution of development; Gene expression; Volvocales

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; FERREDOXIN NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE REDUCTASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TYPE; CHLOROPLAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM LINE; GREEN ALGA; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALGAE, GREEN; ALGAL PROTEINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CODON; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FERREDOXIN-NADP REDUCTASE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERM CELLS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; VOLVOCALES; VOLVOX CARTERI;

EID: 0029800951     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050143     Document Type: Article

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