Renilla luciferase as a vital reporter for chloroplast gene expression in Chlamydomonas

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 262, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 421-425

  Minko, I ^a,c   Holloway, S P ^a,d   Nikaido, S ^b,e   Carter, M ^a   Odom, O W ^a   Johnson, C H ^b   Herrin, D L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioluminescence; Chlamydomonas; Chloroplast transformation; Chloroplast translation; Vital reporter

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LUCIFERASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; START CODON; WESTERN BLOTTING;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLASTS; CNIDARIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032697094     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380051101     Document Type: Article

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