A dominant nuclear mutation in Chlamydomonas identifies a factor controlling chloroplast mRNA stability by acting on the coding region of the atpA transcript

Plant Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 687-697

  Drapier, Dominique ^a   Girard Bascou, Jacqueline ^a   Stern, David B ^b   Wollman, Francis André ^a  

^a INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

^b United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

atpA gene; Chlamydomonas; Chloroplast gene expression; mRNA stability; Nuclear control; Post transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

GENES; MUTAGENESIS; RNA;

CHLOROPLAST;

MICROORGANISMS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALGAL PROTEINS; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLAST PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, DOMINANT; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA STABILITY; RNA, CHLOROPLAST; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0036741190     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2002.01387.x     Document Type: Article

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