Extreme conservation of the psaA/psaB intercistronic spacer reveals a translational motif coincident with the evolution of land plants

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 75, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 184-197

  Peredo, Elena L ^a   Les, Donald H ^a   King, Ursula M ^a   Benoit, Lori K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Charophytes; cpDNA; Embryophytes; Gene expression; Operon; Photosystem I; Polycistronic; Secondary structure; Shine Dalgarno site

Indexed keywords

CHARACEAE; CHARALES; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; NAJAS; PROKARYOTA; PROTISTA;

MESSENGER RNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROPLAST GENE; CONFORMATION; EMBRYOPHYTA; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYSTEM I; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; EMBRYOPHYTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, CHLOROPLAST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PHOTOSYSTEM I PROTEIN COMPLEX; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84877124410     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-012-9526-z     Document Type: Article

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