Riboswitch control of gene expression in plants by splicing and alternative 3′ end processing of mRNAs

Plant Cell

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3437-3450

  Wachter, Andreas ^a,d   Tunc Ozdemir, Meral ^b   Grove, Beth C ^a   Green, Pamela J ^c   Shintani, David K ^b   Breaker, Ronald R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS; RNA;

GENE CONTROL; RIBOSWITCH CLASS; THIAMIN PYROPHOSPHATE (TPP); UNTRANSLATED REGION (UTR);

GENE EXPRESSION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 37849045636     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.107.053645     Document Type: Article

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