Transcripts at the mating type locus of Cochliobolus heterostrophus

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 256, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 661-673

  Leubner Metzger, G ^a   Horwitz, B A ^b   Yoder, O C ^c   Turgeon, B G ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascomycete; Intron; mRNA leader; uORF; UTR

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; POLYADENYLIC ACID;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REPRODUCTION; RNA SPLICING; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030724435     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050614     Document Type: Article

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