Evolution and mechanism of translation in chloroplasts

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue , 1998, Pages 437-459

  Sugiura, Masahiro ^a   Hirose, Tetsuro ^a   Sugita, Mamoru ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chloroplast genome; Ribosomal gene; Ribosome binding site; RNA editing; tRNA

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST; EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA EDITING; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROPLASTS; CODON; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; EVOLUTION; GENOME, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RNA EDITING; RNA, CHLOROPLAST; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, TRANSFER;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032411339     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.32.1.437     Document Type: Review

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