Requirements for mini-exon inclusion in potato invertase mRNAs provides evidence for exon-scanning interactions in plants

RNA

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 422-433

  Simpson, Craig G ^a   Hedley, Peter E ^a   Watters, Jennifer A ^a   Clark, Gillian P ^a   McQuade, Clare ^a   Machray, Gordon C ^a   Brown, John W S ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Branchpoint; Mini exon; Splicing; UA rich sequence

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EXON; INTRON; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EXONS; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EMBRYOPHYTA; GALLUS GALLUS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034020655     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838200992173     Document Type: Article

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