The 3' untranslated region of a rice α-amylase gene mediates sugar-dependent abundance of mRNA

Plant Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 685-695

  Chan, Ming Tsair ^a,b   Yu, Su May ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CHIMERIC GENE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT GENETICS; PROTOPLAST; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RICE; RNA STABILITY; SUSPENSION CELL CULTURE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALPHA-AMYLASE; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOHYDRATES; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; ORYZA SATIVA; PROTOPLASTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT;

EID: 0032170473     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1998.00244.x     Document Type: Article

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