The 3' untranslated regions of chloroplast genes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii do not serve as efficient transcriptional terminators

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 252, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 676-683

  Rott, Ruth ^a   Drager, Robert G ^b   Stern, David B ^b   Schuster, Gadi ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas; Chloroplast transformation; RNA processing; Transcription termination

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLAST; GENE; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINACH; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

ANIMALS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLASTS; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENES, REGULATOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; PROKARYOTA; SPINACIA OLERACEA;

EID: 0029999945     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050276     Document Type: Article

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