Enhanced expression in tobacco of the gene encoding green fluorescent protein by modification of its codon usage

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 989-999

  Rouwendal, Gerard J A ^a   Mendes, Odette ^a   Wolbert, Emil J H ^a   De Boer, A Douwe ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

codon usage; cryptic intron; GFP; synthetic gene; transgenic

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PHOTOPROTEIN; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA; SYNTHETIC DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CODON; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SCYPHOZOA; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES; GENES, SYNTHETIC; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SCYPHOZOA; TOBACCO;

EID: 0031127382     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005740823703     Document Type: Article

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