Leader sequence of a plant ribosomal protein gene with complementarity to the 18S rRNA triggers in vitro cap-independent translation

FEBS Letters

Volumn 580, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2630-2636

  Vanderhaeghen, Rudy ^a   De Clercq, Rebecca ^a   Karimi, Mansour ^a   Van Montagu, Marc ^a   Hilson, Pierre ^a   Van Lijsebettens, Mieke ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

18S rRNA; Arabidopsis thaliana; Cap independent translation; Internal ribosome entry site (IRES); Ribosomal protein

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; LUCIFERASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 18S; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENETICS; POLYSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; UNTRANSLATED REGION; WHEAT GERM;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE DOSAGE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RNA CAPS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; TRITICUM;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 33646186257     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.04.012     Document Type: Article

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