Transcriptomic Study Reveals Widespread Spliced Leader Trans-Splicing, Short 5′-UTRs and Potential Complex Carbon Fixation Mechanisms in the Euglenoid Alga Eutreptiella sp.

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Kuo, Rita C ^a   Zhang, Huan ^a   Zhuang, Yunyun ^a   Hannick, Linda ^b   Lin, Senjie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 PHOSPHOGLYCERIC ACID; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATE DEHYDRATASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATASE; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLYCERIC ACID; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE (NADP); MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; PHOSPHOGLYCERATE KINASE; PHOSPHORIBULOKINASE; PYRUVATE KINASE; PYRUVATE PHOSPHATE DIKINASE; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSKETOLASE; TRIOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE TRANSAMINASE GENE; CARBON FIXATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; EUGLENIDA; EUTREPTIELLA; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATASE GENE; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE GENE; GENE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE POOL; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC RESOURCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE GENE; HETEROTROPHY; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE GENE; NADP DEPENDENT MALATE DEHYDROGENASE GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE GENE; PHOSPHOGLYCERATE KINASE GENE; PHOSPHORIBULOKINASE GENE; PROMOTER REGION; PYROSEQUENCING; PYRUVATE KINASE GENE; PYRUVATE PHOSPHATE DIKINASE GENE; RIBULOSE PHOSPHATE 3 EPIMERASE GENE; SEDOHEPTULOSE BISPHOSPHATASE GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANS SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TRANSKETOLASE GENE; TRIOSE PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE GENE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBON CYCLE; EUGLENIDA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MICROALGAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, SPLICED LEADER; TRANS-SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALGAE; EUGLENIDA; EUTREPTIELLA;

EID: 84876068677     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060826     Document Type: Article

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