Effects of the polyubiquitin gene Ubi. U4 leader intron and first ubiquitin monomer on reporter gene expression in Nicotiana tabacum

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 655-667

  Plesse, Bertrand ^a   Criqui, Marie Claire ^a   Durr, Andrée ^a   Parmentier, Yves ^a   Fleck, Jacqueline ^a   Genschik, Pascal ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC DES PLANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Cell division; Gene expression; Intron; Tobacco; Ubiquitin

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; BIOPOLYMER; POLYUBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENETICS; INTRON; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT; REPORTER GENE; TOBACCO;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BIOPOLYMERS; CELL CYCLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; GLUCURONIDASE; INTRONS; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, TOXIC; POLYUBIQUITIN; TOBACCO; UBIQUITINS;

EID: 0035319879     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010671405594     Document Type: Article

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