Introns and their positions affect the translational activity of mRNA in plant cells

EMBO Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 394-398

  Bourdon, Valérie ^a   Harvey, Alison ^a   Lonsdale, David M ^a,b  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Bioformics Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; INTRON; MAIZE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOPLAST; REPORTER GENE; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSGENE;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0034986092     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/embo-reports/kve090     Document Type: Article

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