Mutations altering the predicted secondary structure of a chloroplast 5' untranslated region affect its physical and biochemical properties as well as its ability to promote translation of reporter mRNAs both in the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplast and in Escherichia coli

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 6980-6990

  Fargo, David C ^a   Boynton, John E ^a   Gillham, Nicholas W ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLAST; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032866077     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.19.10.6980     Document Type: Article

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