Knockout of the plastid RNase e leads to defective RNA processing and chloroplast ribosome deficiency

Plant Journal

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 851-863

  Walter, Michael ^a,c   Piepenburg, Katrin ^b   Schöttler, Mark Aurel ^b   Petersen, Kerstin ^b   Kahlau, Sabine ^b,d   Tiller, Nadine ^b   Drechsel, Oliver ^b   Weingartner, Magdalena ^b,e   Kudla, Jörg ^a   Bock, Ralph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; plastid; RNA degradation; RNA processing; RNA stability; RNase E; translation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); RNA; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EXPRESSION MECHANISM; FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION; MULTIPLE DEFECTS; PLASTID; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STABILITY;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 78649618333     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2010.04377.x     Document Type: Article

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