Translation of psbC mRNAs starts from the downstream GUG, not the upstream AUG, and requires the extended Shine-Dalgarno sequence in tobacco chloroplasts

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1374-1378

  Kuroda, Hiroshi ^a   Suzuki, Haruka ^a   Kusumegi, Takahiro ^b,d   Hirose, Tetsuro ^b,e   Yukawa, Yasushi ^a   Sugiura, Masahiro ^a,b,c  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SUGIYAMA JOGAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

GUG codon; In vitro; psbC; Shine Dalgarno sequence; Tobacco; Translation

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST RNA; MESSENGER RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHLOROPLAST; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; START CODON; TOBACCO;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROPLASTS; CODON, INITIATOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, CHLOROPLAST; RNA, MESSENGER; TOBACCO;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 34548808708     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcm097     Document Type: Article

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