The two RNA polymerases encoded by the nuclear and the plastid compartments transcribe distinct groups of genes in tobacco plastids

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 4041-4048

  Hajdukiewicz, Peter T J ^a   Allison, Lori A ^a,b   Maliga, Pal ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Nicotiana tabacum; Nuclear encoded plastid RNA polymerase (NEP); Plastid gene expression; Plastid encoded RNA polymerase (PEP); rpoB deficient mutant

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HIGHER PLANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT CELL; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ENDOPEPTIDASE CLP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PLANTS, TOXIC; PLASTIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES; RRNA OPERON; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031011722     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.13.4041     Document Type: Article

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