Structure and alternative splicing of a heat shock transcription factor gene, MsHSF1, in Medicago sativa

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 364, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1056-1061

  He, Zhi shui ^a,b   Xie, Rong ^a,b   Zou, Hua song ^a   Wang, Yan zhang ^a   Zhu, Jia bi ^a   Yu, Guan qiao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Heat shock transcription factor; Nonsense mediated mRNA decay; Root nodule

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALFALFA; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; EXON; GENE STRUCTURE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA SPLICE SITES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MEDICAGO SATIVA;

EID: 36048931817     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.10.131     Document Type: Article

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