Protein-mediated protection as the predominant mechanism for defining processed mRNA termini in land plant chloroplasts

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3092-3105

  Zhelyazkova, Petya ^a,b   Hammani, Kamel ^c   Rojas, Margarita ^c   Voelker, Rodger ^c   Vargas Suárez, Martín ^c,d   Börner, Thomas ^a   Barkan, Alice ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXONUCLEASE; MESSENGER RNA; PENTATRICOPEPTIDE REPEAT PROTEIN 10; PROTEIN HCF152; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BARLEY; BINDING SITE; BIOGENESIS; CHLOROPLAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; EXORIBONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HORDEUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA STABILITY; RNA, CHLOROPLAST; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84860153569     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr1137     Document Type: Article

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