The circadian clock regulated RNA-binding protein AtGRP7 autoregulates its expression by influencing alternative splicing of its own pre-mRNA

Plant Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 361-371

  Staiger, Dorothee ^a,b   Zecca, Laura ^a   Wieczorek Kirk, Dominika A ^a   Apel, Klaus ^a   Eckstein, Luca ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Arabidopsis thaliana; Circadian rhythm; Negative feedback loop

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; PROTEINS; RNA;

TRANSGENIC PLANTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HALF-LIFE; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0037266853     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2003.01629.x     Document Type: Article

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