RNA editing sites in tobacco chloroplast transcripts: Editing as a possible regulator of chloroplast RNA polymerase activity

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 262, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 462-467

  Hirose, T ^a   Kusumegi, T ^a   Tsudzuki, T ^b   Sugiura, M ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AICHI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chloroplast; Post transcriptional regulation; RNA editing; RNA polymerase; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST RNA; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LEUCINE; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EDITING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROPLASTS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, TOXIC; RNA EDITING; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TOBACCO; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0032721862     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380051106     Document Type: Article

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