The TATA motif, the CAA motif and the poly(T) transcription termination motif are all important for transcription re-initiation on plant tRNA genes

Plant Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 439-447

  Yukawa, Yasushi ^a   Sugita, Mamoru ^a   Choisne, Nathalie ^b   Small, Ian ^b   Sugiura, Masahiro ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS; DNA FLANKING REGION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TATA BOX; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; TRANSFER RNA;

BASE SEQUENCE; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLANTS, TOXIC; RNA, TRANSFER, SER; SEQUENCE DELETION; TATA BOX; TERMINATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0034086571     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2000.00752.x     Document Type: Article

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