Small cis-acting sequences that specify secondary structures in a chloroplast mRNA are essential for RNA stability and translation

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 8479-8491

  Higgs, David C ^a,c   Shapiro, Risa S ^b   Kindle, Karen L ^b,d   Stern, David B ^a  

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

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PARKSIDE   (United States)

^d Cereon Genomics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DIMETHYL SULFATE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLOROPLAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION;

CHLAMYDOMONAS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0033513567     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.12.8479     Document Type: Article

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