Determinants of plant U12-dependent intron splicing efficiency

Plant Cell

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1340-1352

  Lewandowska, Dominika ^a,b   Simpson, Craig G ^b   Clark, Gillian P ^b   Jennings, Nikki S ^b   Barciszewska Pacak, Maria ^a   Lin, Chiao Feng ^c   Makalowski, Wojciech ^c   Brown, John W S ^b   Jarmolowski, Artur ^a  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

ENHANCER SEQUENCES (ESE); EXON BRIDGING INTERACTIONS; INTRONS; PROTOPLAST SYSTEMS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 2442541263     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.020743     Document Type: Article

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