The chloroplast chlL gene of the green alga Chlorella vulgaris C-27 contains a self-splicing group I intron

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 250, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 655-664

  Kapoor, Meenu ^a   Wakasugi, Tatsuya ^a,c   Yoshinaga, Koichi ^b   Sugiura, Masahiro ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

ChlL; Chlorella; Chloroplast; Group I intron; Self splicing

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GREEN ALGA; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 0029881709     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02172976     Document Type: Article

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