Monitoring dynamic expression of nuclear genes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii by using a synthetic luciferase reporter gene

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 869-881

  Fuhrmann, Markus ^a   Hausherr, Amparo ^a,b   Ferbitz, Lars ^a,c   Schödl, Thomas ^a,d   Heitzer, Markus ^a   Hegemann, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b HPK Building ^*  (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Gene Art GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bioluminescence; Channelrhodopsin 2; Chop 2; Gene expression; Synthetic gene

Indexed keywords

CELLS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENES; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PROTEINS; RNA;

IMMUNOBLOTTING; NUCLEAR GENE EXPRESSION; NUCLEAR GENES; RNA HYBRIDIZATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CELLS; GENES; INOCULATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLANTS; POLLUTION CONTROL; PROTEINS;

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; RENILLA RENIFORMIS;

ALGAL PROTEIN; COELENTERAZINE; HYBRID PROTEIN; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; LUCIFERASE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PYRAZINE DERIVATIVE; RIBULOSE 1,5 BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE SMALL SUBUNIT; RIBULOSE-1,5-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE SMALL-SUBUNIT; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; SYNTHESIS; TIME;

ALGAL PROTEINS; ANIMALS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; IMIDAZOLES; LUCIFERASES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PYRAZINES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 14644445240     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-004-2150-6     Document Type: Article

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