Structural and functional characterization of a transcription-enhancing sequence element in the rbcL gene of the Chlamydomonas chloroplast genome

Current Genetics

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 349-356

  Anthonisen, Inger Lill ^a   Kasai, Seitaro ^b   Kato, Ko ^b   Salvador, Maria Luisa ^c   Klein, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chloroplast genome; Chloroplast promoter; Enhancer; rbcL gene

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN RBCL; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLOROPLASTS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EUKARYOTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0036935904     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-002-0311-1     Document Type: Article

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