RNA processing and decay in plastids

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 295-316

  Germain, Arnaud ^a   Hotto, Amber M ^a   Barkan, Alice ^b   Stern, David B ^a  

^a United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; EXORIBONUCLEASE; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBOZYME; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANS ACTING FACTOR; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CHLOROPLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HELIX (SNAIL); HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PLASTID; POLYADENYLATION; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA DECAY; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA EDITING; RNA METABOLISM; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PLANT PROTEINS; PLASTIDS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA STABILITY;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 84876435232     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1161     Document Type: Review

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