Non-AUG translation initiation of mRNA encoding plastid-targeted phage-type RNA polymerase in Nicotiana sylvestris

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 299, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 57-61

  Kobayashi, Yuki ^a   Dokiya, Yuko ^a   Kumazawa, Yoshinori ^a   Sugita, Mamoru ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage T7 type RNA polymerase; Chloroplast; Moss; Nicotiana sylvestris; Non AUG translation initiation; Physcomitrella patens; Plastid localization; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE ISOLATION; INTRON; NICOTIANA SYLVESTRIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOPLAST; TOBACCO; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRYOPSIDA; CODON; CODON, INITIATOR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; EXONS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTRONS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; PLASTIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TOBACCO;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA SYLVESTRIS; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PHYSCOMITRELLA; PHYSCOMITRELLA PATENS;

EID: 0036435996     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(02)02579-2     Document Type: Article

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