Riboswitch-dependent gene regulation and its evolution in the plant kingdom

Genes and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 2874-2879

  Bocobza, Samuel ^a,b   Adato, Avital ^a   Mandel, Tali ^a   Shapira, Michal ^b   Nudler, Evgeny ^c   Aharoni, Asaph ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Higher eukaryotes; Metabolite sensing; Riboswitch; Thiamine pyrophosphate

Indexed keywords

RNA PRECURSOR;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; PLANT EVOLUTION; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSWITCH;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; INTRONS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLANTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; THIAMINE PYROPHOSPHATE;

EUKARYOTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 36248989143     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.443907     Document Type: Article

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