Multiple translational control sequences in the 5′ leader of the chloroplast psbC mRNA interact with nuclear gene products in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Genetics

Volumn 163, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 895-904

  Zerges, William ^a   Auchincloss, Andrea H ^b,c   Rochaix, Jean David ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; MESSENGER RNA PSBC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALGA; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REPORTER GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; START CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLASTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EUKARYOTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0037355116     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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