Chloroplast tranformation in Euglena gracilis: Splicing of a group III twintron transcribed from a transgenic psbK operon

Current Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 49-60

  Doetsch, Natalie A ^a   Favreau, Mitchell R ^a   Kuscuoglu, Nesrin ^a   Thompson, Michael D ^b   Hallick, Richard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

AadA; Biolistic; Chloroplast; Euglena; Transformation

Indexed keywords

AADA PROTEIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DNA; GENE PRODUCT; MARKER; MESSENGER RNA; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BIOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLOROPLAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA VECTOR; EPISOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUGLENA; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EUGLENA STELLATA; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENOME; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SPECIES; TOBACCO; TRANSGENE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDOMONAS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUGLENA; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EUGLENA STELLATA; NEGIBACTERIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PROTOZOA;

ANIMALS; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLOROPLASTS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EUGLENA GRACILIS; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0034745879     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940000174     Document Type: Article

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