Expression of the Volvox gene encoding nitrate reductase: Mutation-dependent activation of cryptic splice sites and intron-enhanced gene expression from a cDNA

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-12

  Gruber, Heribert ^a   Kirzinger, Stefan H ^a   Schmitt, Rüdiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryptic splice sites; Gene expression; Intron enhancement; nitA cDNA; Transformation; Volvox

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; NITRATE REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GREEN ALGA; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING;

ALGAE, GREEN; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; RNA SPLICING; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ALGAE; VOLVOX; VOLVOX CARTERI;

EID: 0030130398     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00020601     Document Type: Article

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