Whirly1 in chloroplasts associates with intron containing RNAs and rarely co-localizes with nucleoids

Planta

Volumn 232, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 471-481

  Melonek, Joanna ^a   Mulisch, Maria ^a   Schmitz Linneweber, Christian ^b   Grabowski, Evelyn ^a   Hensel, Götz ^c   Krupinska, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barley RNAi knockdown plants; Immunogold labelling; Plastid gene expression; RNA co immunoprecipitation; Run on transcription; Whirly DNA binding proteins

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PLANT RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BARLEY; CHLOROPLAST; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTRON; METABOLISM; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RNA INTERFERENCE;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHLOROPLASTS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HORDEUM; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTRONS; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, PLANT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

HORDEUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77953686560     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-010-1183-0     Document Type: Article

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