Pre-mRNA splicing in higher plants

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 160-167

  Lorković, Zdravko J ^a   Wieczorek Kirk, Dominika A ^a   Lambermon, Mark H L ^a   Filipowicz, Witold ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIGHER PLANT; INTRON; MESSENGER RNA; MUTANT; PLANT GENOME; RNA SPLICING;

EXONS; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; INTRONS; PLANTS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034177911     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1360-1385(00)01595-8     Document Type: Review

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