Translation of the chloroplast psbC mRNA is controlled by interactions between its 5' leader and the nuclear loci TBC1 and TBC3 in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 3440-3448

  Zerges, William ^a,b   Girard Bascou, Jacqueline ^c   Rochaix, Jean David ^b  

^a Department of Molecular Biology ^*  (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLAST; CODON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0030974988     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.6.3440     Document Type: Article

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