RNA G-Quadruplexes in the model plant species Arabidopsis thaliana: Prevalence and possible functional roles

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 8149-8163

  Mullen, Melissa A ^a   Olson, Kalee J ^a   Dallaire, Paul ^b   Major, Franois ^b   Assmann, Sarah M ^a   Bevilacqua, Philip C ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; POTASSIUM;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DROUGHT STRESS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENOME; POTASSIUM CELL LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA SPLICING; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; DNA, INTERGENIC; G-QUADRUPLEXES; GENOME, PLANT; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA, PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 78650442734     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq804     Document Type: Article

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