The sequence and structure of the 3'-untranslated regions of chloroplast transcripts are important determinants of mRNA accumulation and stability

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 307-314

  Rott, Ruth ^a   Liveanu, Varda ^a   Drager, Robert G ^b   Stern, David B ^b   Schuster, Gadi ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b School of Integrative Plant Science   (United States)

Author keywords

3' untranslated region; atpB; Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; Chloroplast; Inverted repeat

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLOROPLAST; CONFORMATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASTID; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLOROPLASTS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASTIDS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0031908610     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005943701253     Document Type: Article

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