Transcription from heterologous rRNA operon promoters in chloroplasts reveals requirement for specific activating factors

Plant Physiology

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1495-1499

  Sriraman, Priya ^a   Silhavy, Daniel ^a,b   Maliga, Pal ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLANT; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOBACCO;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROPLASTS; DNA, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PLANTS, TOXIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032134218     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.117.4.1495     Document Type: Article

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