The rbcL gene from the non-photosynthetic parasite Lathraea clandestina is not transcribed by a plastid-encoded RNA polymerase

Current Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 212-215

  Lusson, Nathalie A ^a   Delavault, Philippe M ^a   Thalouarn, Patrick A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Lathraea clandestina; Parasitic plant; rbcL; rpo genes

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PLANT; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; START CODON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; PLASTIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PSEUDOGENES; RIBOSOMES; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LATHRAEA; LATHRAEA CLANDESTINA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031687575     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050388     Document Type: Article

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