Inversions in the chlamydomonas chloroplast genome suppress a petD 5' untranslated region deletion by creating functional chimeric mRNAs

Plant Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 663-671

  Higgs, David C ^a   Kuras, Richard ^b   Kindle, Karen L ^c   Wollman, Francis André ^b   Stern, David B ^a  

^a United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^b INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA; CYTOCHROME B; DELETION MUTAGENESIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MESSENGER RNA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHIMERA; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLOROPLASTS; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; CYTOCHROME B6F COMPLEX; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE DELETION; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032104710     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.1998.00165.x     Document Type: Article

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