Test of the combinatorial model of intron recognition in a native maize gene

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 637-644

  Latijnhouwers, Maita J ^a,b   Pairoba, Claudio F ^a   Brendel, Volker ^a,c   Walbot, Virginia ^a   Carle Urioste, Jose C ^a,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Iowa State University ^*  (Netherlands)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Nuvelo Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Bronze2; Exon; G+C content; RNA processing; Splicing

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC GENE; DNA FLANKING REGION; EXON; GENETIC MODEL; INTRON; MAIZE; PLANT GENETICS; PROTOPLAST; RNA SPLICING; TARGETED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

ADENOSINE; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; EXONS; GC RICH SEQUENCE; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA SPLICING; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; URIDINE; ZEA MAYS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0033228125     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006329517740     Document Type: Article

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