Functional interconnections of Arabidopsis exon junction complex proteins and genes at multiple steps of gene expression

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 62, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 5025-5036

  Mufarrege, Eduardo F ^a   Gonzalez, Daniel H ^a   Curi, Graciela C ^a  

^a Universidad Nacional del Litoral   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; intron mediated enhancement; Mago; protein phosphorylation; PYM; site II element; Y14

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; MAGO PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PYM PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; Y14 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INTRON; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; INTRONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MAGO;

EID: 80054090052     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/err202     Document Type: Article

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