Transcripts containing the 5' untranslated regions of the plastid genes psbA and psbB from higher plants are unstable in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplasts

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 262, Issue 4-5, 1999, Pages 768-771

  Nickelsen, J ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

5' Untranslated regions (UTRs); Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; Chloroplast; Higher plants; RNA stability

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST RNA; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; SPECTINOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; RNA METABOLISM;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLASTS; DNA PRIMERS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHOTOSYSTEM I PROTEIN COMPLEX; PLANTS; RNA, MESSENGER;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; SPINACIA OLERACEA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0033390249     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380051139     Document Type: Article

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