Organization and transcription of the gene encoding potato UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase

Gene

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 293-297

  Borovkov, Alex Y ^a   McClean, Phillip E ^a   Secor, Gary A ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium; Plant; Promoter; Transformation

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOP CODON; SUPPRESSOR GENE; TANDEM REPEAT; TATA BOX; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EXONS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UTP-GLUCOSE-1-PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

AGROBACTERIUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0031036970     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00724-X     Document Type: Article

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