Contribution of 5′- and 3′-untranslated regions of plastid mRNAs to the expression of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplast genes

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 274, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 625-636

  Barnes, Dwight ^a   Franklin, Scott ^a,b   Schultz, Jason ^a,b   Henry, Ryan ^a   Brown, Emma ^a,c   Coragliotti, Anna ^a,d   Mayfield, Stephen P ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Rincon Pharmaceuticals Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d Solazyme Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

3 UTR; 5 UTR; Chloroplast; Gene expression

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CHIMERA; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLAST GENETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSLATION; ANIMAL; CHLOROPLAST; CONFORMATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLASTS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASTIDS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 28544435241     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-005-0055-y     Document Type: Article

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