Altering the 3' UTR endonucleolytic cleavage site of a Chlamydomonas chloroplast mRNA affects 3'-end maturation in vitro but not in vivo

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 679-686

  Rott, Ruth ^a   Liveanu, Varda ^a   Drager, Robert G ^b   Higgs, Dave ^b   Stern, David B ^b   Schuster, Gadi ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

atpB; Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; Chloroplast gene expression; mRNA processing

Indexed keywords

BIOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION; CHLOROPLAST; ENDONUCLEASE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MESSENGER RNA; MUTATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALGAL PROTEINS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; ENDONUCLEASES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0033167046     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006252201661     Document Type: Article

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