Biological activity of two tombusvirus proteins translated from nested genes is influenced by dosage control via context-dependent leaky scanning

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 670-679

  Scholthof, Herman B ^a   Desvoyes, Bénédicte ^a   Kuecker, Joan ^a   Whitehead, Elizabeth ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE PRODUCT; HYPERSENSITIVITY; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; SPINACH; TARGETED MUTAGENESIS; TOMATO BUSHY STUNT VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0032840960     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1999.12.8.670     Document Type: Article

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